Anthony Fauci

5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022 · United States · Doctors · Born 1940 · age 85

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He stood at the lectern through five decades and seven presidencies, the federal immunologist who became the face of America's COVID response - and a lightning rod in a culture war that turned public health guidance into partisan battleground.

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A life in dates

2021Dan David PrizeAwardPhilip Hauge Abelson PrizeAward2020“Bottom line. We don't have to worry about this one, right?”In their words2020Read the whole statement

“I don't think that we are going to get out of this completely unscathed, I think that this is going to be one of those things we look back on and say boy, that was bad.”In their words3 March 2020About the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States, quoted in You don't want to go to war with a president, 3 March 2020, .Read the whole statement

“It’s a very, very low risk to the United States, but it’s something that we as public health officials need to take very seriously...”In their words21 January 2020Quoted in Government health agency official: Coronavirus 'isn't something the American public need to worry about by J. Edward Moreno, 26Read the whole statement

Nature's 10Award2018“As experience has taught us more often than not the thing that is gonna hit us is something that we did not anticipate.”In their words12 March 2018On Disease X, as quoted in World Health Organization gets ready for 'Disease X (March 12, 2018) by , .Read the whole statement

2016Mendel MedalAward2015Honorary Doctor of George Washington UniversityAward2014“You've got to balance the compassionate-use aspect with trying to figure out whether it works.”In their words9 August 2014Quoted by the New York Times (August 9, 2014), regarding the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.Read the whole statement

2013Prince Mahidol AwardAward2010Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical ResearchAward2007Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service AwardAward2005National Medal of ScienceAward2002Albany Medical Center PrizeAward2001“This is material that is quite formidable, that is infecting people with inhalation anthrax, infecting them in the absence of direct contact.”In their wordsResponse to a 2001 anthrax attack, reported in Denise Grady, "Not his first epidemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci sticks to the facts", The New YorkRead the whole statement

1999Alexander Fleming AwardAward1995Ernst Jung Prize for MedicineAward1989Maxwell Finland AwardAward1979Arthur S. Flemming AwardAward1940Born24 December 1940

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In their own words 10

Anthony Fauci

10 statements, newest first

Bottom line. We don't have to worry about this one, right?
2020, 2020, Own words
You don't want to go to war with a president [...] There's a temptation that you have to fight to tell the president what you think he wants to hear.
Mar 3, 2020, Quoted in You don't want to go to war with a president, 3 March 2020, ., Own words
I don't think that we are going to get out of this completely unscathed, I think that this is going to be one of those things we look back on and say boy, that was bad.
Mar 3, 2020, About the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States, quoted in You don't want to go to war with a president, 3 March 2020, ., Own words

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Awards

NAS Public Welfare Medal2021

Philip Hauge Abelson Prize2021

Dan David Prize2021

John Maddox Prize2020

Nature's 102020

Prix International de l’INSERM2020

Canada Gairdner Global Health Award2016

Mendel Medal2016

Honorary Doctor of George Washington University2015

Robert Koch Gold Medal2013

Prince Mahidol Award2013

Honorary Doctor of the University of Miami2012

Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research2010

Honorary Doctor of Harvard University2009

Presidential Medal of Freedom, George W. Bush2008

Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award2007

George M. Kober Medal2007

National Medal of Science2005

American Association of Immunologists Lifetime Achievement Award2005

Albany Medical Center Prize2002

Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cancer Research1999

Alexander Fleming Award1999

Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize1998

Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine1995

Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Members of the Executive Branch in Career Public Service1992

Maxwell Finland Award1989

George M. Kober Lectureship1988

Arthur S. Flemming Award1979

Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Honorary Doctor of Johns Hopkins University

Honorary Doctor of Pennsylvania State University

Honorary Doctorate from Emory University

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Anthony Fauci graduated from Holy Cross with a classics degree before earning his MD from Cornell, then joined the National Institutes of Health as a physician-scientist. He became director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and held the post for thirty-eight years, advising every president from Reagan forward while building a research career that made him one of the world's most-cited scientists between 1983 and 2002. His work on HIV/AIDS and immunodeficiency earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush in 2008 for his role in the AIDS relief program PEPFAR. When COVID-19 arrived, he joined the White House Coronavirus Task Force under Trump, where his guidance was frequently contradicted and his motives questioned by the president's supporters, then continued as Biden's Chief Medical Advisor and a lead on the COVID-19 Response Team until stepping down in 2022.

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George C. WolfeAlso in Larry Kramer In Love & Anger (2015)

Ruth L. KirschsteinBoth received Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Members of the Executive Branch in Career Public Service

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