Anthony Stephen Fauci
Anthony S. Fauci is a physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022. As the NIAID director, he oversaw an extensive 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, Zika and COVID-19. He also led the NIAID research effort on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma, and allergies.
As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Fauci served the American public health sector for more than fifty years and advised seven Presidents on domestic and global health issues. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his work on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved more than 20 million lives throughout the developing world.
As the longtime chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, Dr. Fauci made many contributions to basic and clinical research on the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated and infectious diseases. He helped pioneer the field of human immunoregulation, delineated the precise ways that immunosuppressive agents modulate the human immune response, and developed effective therapies for formerly fatal inflammatory and immune-mediated diseases.
He received his undergraduate education at the College of the Holy Cross and his Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University.
In addition to his membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Fauci is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, 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. He serves on the editorial boards of many scientific journals and as an author, coauthor, or editor of more than 1,400 scientific publications, including several textbooks.