Dr. Anthony Fauci Announces Plans For Retirement
After serving the American public for decades, one of this country’s most prominent scientists plans to retire from government work.Dr.
Anthony Fauci told Politico he plans to retire by the end of President Joe Biden’s current term as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at that National Institutes of Health.Fauci has not begun the process of retiring, nor does he have a specific retirement date in mind.“I have said that for a long time,” Fauci told the outlet of his plans to leave the administration before Biden’s term ends in January 2025. “By the time we get to the end of Biden’s first term, I will very likely [retire].” At the National Institutes of Health, Fauci oversees a portfolio of research aimed at preventing, diagnosing, and treating HIV, AIDS, respiratory infections, other infections, and emerging diseases such as Zika and Ebola as director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). "Everybody in a position of any influence in my institute, I handpick.
So it's something that I've been working on now for four decades. So we have a good system in place," Fauci told CNN on Monday. "Obviously, you can't go on forever.
I do want to do other things in my career, even though I'm at a rather advanced age. I have the energy and the passion to continue to want to pursue other aspects of my professional career and I'm going to do that some time.
