NIH Selects New Infectious Disease Official to Succeed Fauci
- NIH taps Jeanne Marrazzo to lead top infectious disease agency
- Marrazzo to succeed Anthony Fauci, who led unit for 38 years
NIH selects Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Source: National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health selected Jeanne Marrazzo to lead the nation’s top infectious disease research agency, securing a successor to Anthony Fauci, who held the role for almost four decades.
Marrazzo will be the director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the agency said in a statement Wednesday. In this role, Marrazzo will support research to advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in the US and abroad. She currently serves as the director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Division of Infectious Diseases, and is expected to assume the chief NIAID role in the fall.