Anthony Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci is a famous American physician and the director of the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]] (NIAID).

Dr. Anthony Fauci

Director of NIAID

Dr. Fauci was appointed Director of NIAID in 1984.

Research interests

He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika.

Advisor to the president

Dr. Fauci is an advisor the US president, and having advised seven Presidents on not only HIV/AIDS but also many other domestic and global health issues including the COVID 19 pandemic.

Role in PEPFAR

He was one of the principal architects of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world.

Laboratory of immunoregulation

Dr. Fauci also is the longtime chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation.

Research contributions

• He has made many contributions to basic and clinical research on the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated and infectious diseases.
• He developed effective therapies for formerly fatal inflammatory and immune-mediated diseases such as polyarteritis nodosa, granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly Wegener's granulomatosis), and lymphomatoid granulomatosis.
• A 1985 Stanford University Arthritis Center Survey of the American Rheumatism Association membership ranked Dr. Fauci’s work on the treatment of polyarteritis nodosa and granulomatosis with polyangiitis among the most important advances in patient management in rheumatology over the previous 20 years.
• Dr. Fauci has made seminal contributions to the understanding of how HIV destroys the body's defenses leading to its susceptibility to deadly infections.
• He has been instrumental in developing treatments that enable people with HIV to live long and active lives. He continues to devote much of his research to the immunopathogenic mechanisms of HIV infection and the scope of the body's immune responses to HIV.

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Anthony Fauci and Bill Clinton (1997)

Professional societies

Dr. Fauci is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, as well as other professional societies including the American College of Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Association of Immunologists, and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Editorial boards

Dr Fauci serves on the editorial boards of many scientific journals and as an author, coauthor, or editor of more than 1,300 scientific publications, including several textbooks.

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