Anthony Fauci

Anthony Stephen Fauci ( born December 24, 1940 in New York City ) is an American immunologist.

Life

Fauci acquired in 1966 M.D. at Cornell University Medical College in Ithaca, New York. As a medical assistant, he worked at the New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center in New York City, before moving in 1968 to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ( NIAID), an agency of the National Institutes of Health ( NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1974 he took over the management of the local Department of Clinical Physiology and 1980 the local laboratory for immune regulation. 1984 Fauci became Director of NIAID.

Work

Fauci made ​​in the early 1980s, a name in the fledgling AIDS research. He is one of the pioneers of the study of the immune regulation in humans. He was able to identify several immunoregulatory factors. Fauci was also able to describe the normal function of B lymphocytes. In his research, successful therapies based regularly before fatal autoimmune diseases. Fauci identified cellular and molecular mechanisms of expression of HIV in chronically or latently infected cells.

Fauci is a leading advisor to the U.S. government in the areas of HIV infection and the biohazard. He is one of the editors of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, a standard textbook of internal medicine.

Awards (selection)

Fauci was awarded 40 honorary doctorates; He is author, co - author or editor of over 1200 scientific publications (each stand 2013).