WASHINGTON - A research scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham was named Aug. 8 to succeed Dr. Anthony Fauci as the nation’s top infectious disease expert.
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo will become director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the fall. She will oversee the agency’s $6.3B budget, its research and its response to infectious disease outbreaks.
Fauci, 82, retired from a five-decade career in December. Since Fauci’s retirement, Dr. Hugh Auchincloss Jr. has been serving as acting director.
Marrazzo’s research has focused on sexually transmitted diseases and the prevention of HIV infection. At the university, she is director of the medical school’s division of infectious diseases.
Her appointment was made by Lawrence Tabak, acting director for the National Institutes of Health. (The AP 08/08/23)
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