OUR Academy of Athens chose an American professor and former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases USA, ADonny Faucias his foreign partner in the science “Medicine” in the first category of positive sciences.

This decision was made at the Plenary meeting on April 27, 2023.

Biography of Anthony Fauci

Dr. Fauci was born in New York in 1940, graduated from Cornell University Medical School in 1966, and later trained in internal pathology and infectious diseases at Cornell University Medical Center. In 1968, he began his scientific career at the National Institutes of Health as a junior member of the Clinical Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and in 1974 was appointed Head of the Clinical Physiology Department of the Clinical Research Laboratory. .

In 1980, he was appointed director of the Reform Laboratory and in 1984 became director of the Institute, a position he held until December 2022. Throughout his career, he has led work at the US National Institutes of Health that has changed the way we diagnose, treat, and treatment in developing countries. prevention of important and dangerous infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, pneumonia, meningitis and gastroenteritis. In addition, under more than forty years of Dr. Fauci’s leadership, the Fauci Institute has made remarkable scientific progress, turning deadly diseases into curable ones, thereby helping to save millions of lives. It is noteworthy that when studying the pathogenetic mechanisms of HIV infection (AIDS) by prescribing combination antiretroviral therapy to patients, HIV infection has ceased to be fatal, since people infected with the virus can now live an almost normal life.

His role during the Covid pandemic

In addition, his assistance has been instrumental in fighting emerging viral infections such as West Nile, SARS, MERS, pandemic influenza, Ebola and most recently SARS-CoV-2, where basic research efforts have led to the development of vaccines and experimental treatments. which drastically reduce mortality from disease. During the three years that covid-19 disease dominated the planet, he led the public awareness effort through numerous speeches and media appearances.

The influence of pioneering researcher and eminent physician D. Fauci in science and clinical medicine is confirmed by his ranking as the thirty-second (32nd) most cited living researcher in all scientific disciplines, according to Google Research 2020. He is the author and (co-)author or editor of over 1400 scientific papers and medical books. He has received numerous awards for his scientific contributions, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science, the highest honors bestowed by the President of the United States, the Mary Woodard Lasker Public Health Award, and 58 university honorary doctorates. worldwide.