NIAID director to deliver Perspectives in Science seminar April 29 in Pelton

Brief

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health (NIAID), will be the speaker at the next New Perspectives in Science seminar, which will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, April 29, in Pelton Auditorium. His seminar is entitled, "Pathogenesis of HIV Disease: The Role of Viral Replication and Immune Activation."

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. He also has made seminal contributions to the understanding of how the AIDS virus destroys the body's defenses leading to its susceptibility to deadly infections. In 1984, he became director of NIAID, where he oversees an extensive 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.

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) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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