The following is an excerpt from USA Today via Yahoo News.
A health expert at the University of Alabama has been named the next director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institutes of Health announced this week.
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo is expected to start the job this fall, the NIH said in a statement released Wednesday. Dr. Anthony Fauci retired from the post in December.
The federal agency is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Hugh Auchincloss Jr. has served as acting director since Fauci stepped down.
Marrazzo is currently the director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the university’s medical school in Birmingham.
In a joint statement from the university’s President Ray Watts and Dr. Anupam Agarwal, senior vice president of medicine at the school, the pair called Marrazzo’s appointment “a great opportunity for her to make a big difference to the country, and it is indicative of the high regard that exists for both her and UAB.”
In her new role, Marrazzo will oversee NIAID’s $6.3 billion budget which supports research in an effort to understand, diagnose and treat infectious, immunologic and allergic diseases.
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