Anthony Fauci, MD, is Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Since becoming the director in 1984, Dr. Fauci has overseen an extensive research portfolio aimed at preventing, diagnosing, and treating infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, influenza, tuberculosis, malaria and illness from potential agents of bioterrorism. He received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1966, completed residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, and later took a post at NIAID as a clinical associate in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation. At NIAID, he became head of the institute’s Clinical Physiology Section and chief of its Laboratory of Immunoregulation prior to his installment as institute director. Among his medical science contributions, his research shed light on how the AIDS virus destroys the body’s defenses leading to its susceptibility to deadly infections. In 2007 he was selected as the recipient of the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service in Support of Medical Research and the Health Sciences.
