Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a native of Brooklyn, New York, received his
M.D. degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1966. He then
completed an internship and residency at The New York Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center. In 1968, Dr. Fauci came to the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) as a clinical associate in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation
(LCI) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
In 1974, he became Head of the Clinical Physiology Section, LCI, and
in 1980 was appointed Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, a
position he still holds. In 1984, Dr. Fauci became Director of NIAID,
where he oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied
research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious and immune-mediated
illnesses, including HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases,
illness from potential agents of bioterrorism, tuberculosis, malaria,
autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies. The budget for NIAID for
fiscal year 2003 is approximately $4 billion. Dr. Fauci serves as one
of the key advisors to the White House and Department of Health and
Human Services on global AIDS issues, and on initiatives to bolster
medical and public health preparedness against possible future bioterrorist attacks.
Dr. Fauci has made many contributions to basic and clinical research
on the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated diseases. He has
pioneered the field of human immunoregulation by making a number of
basic scientific observations that serve as the basis for current understanding
of the regulation of the human immune response. In addition, Dr. Fauci
is widely recognized for delineating the precise mechanisms whereby
immunosuppressive agents modulate the human immune response. He has
developed effective therapies for formerly fatal diseases such as polyarteritis
nodosa, Wegener's granulomatosis, and lymphomatoid granulomatosis. A
1985 Stanford University Arthritis Center Survey of the American Rheumatism
Association membership ranked the work of Dr. Fauci on the treatment
of polyarteritis nodosa and Wegener's granulomatosis as one of 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
the AIDS virus destroys the body's defenses leading to its susceptibility
to deadly infections. He also has delineated the mechanisms of induction
of HIV expression by endogenous cytokines. Furthermore, he has been
instrumental in developing strategies for the therapy and immune reconstitution
of patients with this serious disease, as well as for a vaccine to prevent
HIV infection. He continues to devote much of his research time to identifying
the nature of the immunopathogenic mechanisms of HIV infection and the
scope of the body's immune responses to the AIDS retrovirus.
In 2003, an Institute for Scientific Information study indicated that
in the twenty year period from 1983 to 2002, Dr. Fauci was the 13th
most-cited scientist among the 2.5 to 3 million authors in all disciplines
throughout the world who published articles in scientific journals during
that time frame. Dr. Fauci was the ninth most-cited scientist in the
field of immunology in the period from January 1993 to June 30, 2003.
Through the years, Dr. Fauci has served as Visiting Professor at major
medical centers throughout the country. He has delivered many major
lectureships all over the world and is the recipient of numerous prestigious
awards for his scientific accomplishments, including 29 honorary doctorate
degrees from universities in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Fauci is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American
Philosophical Society, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy
of Sciences (Council Member), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, as well as a number
of 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 and Immunology. He serves on the editorial boards of many scientific
journals; as an editor of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine;
and as author, coauthor, or editor of more than 1,000 scientific publications,
including several textbooks.
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