Anthony S. Fauci

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a native of Brooklyn, New York, received his MD 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
he 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. Dr. Fauci serves as one of the key advisors to the
White House and the U.S. 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 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 has also 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.

Dr. Fauci is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the Institute of Medicine (council member), the American Philosophical Society, 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 one thousand scientific
publications, including several textbooks.