Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been chosen to lead the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Her appointment to the NIAID director post will take effect in the fall, and she will succeed NIAID Acting Director Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, who stepped into the role after Dr. Anthony Fauci’s departure in December, the National Institutes of Health said Wednesday.
Marrazzo’s early career experience includes time as a faculty member at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
She was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Physicians in 1996, and became chair of the Subspecialty Board on Infectious Disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 2012.
Marrazzo is a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America and a specialist in HIV and the human microbiome. The Lesbian/Bisexual Women’s Health Study, which she co-founded, was noticed and funded by NIAID.
