Anthony Stephen Fauci is an American physician-scientist and immunologist. He is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR.
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Anthony Stephen Fauci is an American physician-scientist and immunologist. He is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. He was one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR. He has been a visiting professor at many medical universities and has received numerous honorary doctorates from the U.S. and abroad. He grew up Catholic, but now considers himself a humanist. He played a significant role in the early 2000s in creating the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and in driving development of biodefense drugs and vaccines. In 1985, the American Rheumatism and Arthritis Center ranked him as the top doctor in the world for treatment of polyarteritis, granatitis, and polyangiitis with nodosa, granomatosis, and lymphatitis. He also is recognized for his research on the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever, and for developing a new treatment for rheumatitis with polyangitis and granomulatosis with nodosarcoma. He will continue to serve as chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden until the end of his term in 2021, when he will take up a new position at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) He has served American public health in various capacities for more than 50 years, and has been an advisor to every U.
S. president since Ronald Reagan. He became director of NIAID in 1984 and has made contributions to HIVAIDS research and other immunodeficiency diseases, both as a scientist and as the head of the NIAIDs. In 1984, he became director, and he is responsible for an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research on infectious and immune-mediated illnesses. He turned down several offers to lead his agency’s parent, the NIH, and is at the forefront of efforts to contend with viral diseases like HIVAIDS, SARS, the Swine flu, MERS, Ebola, and CO VID-19. In 2002, he was among the world’s most frequently-cited scientists across all scientific journals. He received the highest civilian award in the US, the highest award for public service, the Presidential medal of Freedom, in 2008, for work on PEPfAR. His maternal grandfather, Giovanni Abys, was born in Switzerland and was an artist, noted for landscape and portrait painting, magazine illustrations in Italy, as well as graphic design for commercial labels, including olive oil cans. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Sciacca, Italy, in the late 19th century. His father was a Columbia University–educated pharmacist, and his mother and sister Denise worked the register, and FauCI delivered prescriptions.
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