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>>8935950 (lb) In March of 2002, Fauci received 1/2 Million award from Albany Medical Center, funded by a $50M gift from a billionaire

$50M gift was from Morris "Marty" Silverman

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$500,000 Albany Med. Center prize goes to Fauci

Mar 27, 2002, 3:38pm EST Updated Mar 27, 2002, 3:38pm EST

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a pioneering AIDS researcher and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was named the recipient Wednesday afternoon of the $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. The prize is the largest award in medicine in the United States.

Dr. Fauci was cited for his seminal research in AIDS and other diseases of the immune system, for his overall contributions to the advancement of science and for his distinguished public service.

His work in AIDS traces back to 1981, and in subsequent research, centered around the link with HIV patients and chronic disease. His observations formed the basis for much of the current research on HIV. He also was instrumental in developing therapies for three inflammatory diseases that had previously been fatal.

James Barba, chairman, president and CEO of Albany Medical Center, introduced Dr. Fauci at the awards ceremony in New York City. The prize was established in November 2000 following a $50 million gift commitment to Albany Medical Center from Marty Silverman, New York City businessman and philanthropist.

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Albany Med Center to host bioterror lecture

Dec 4, 2002, 9:14am EST Updated Dec 4, 2002, 9:14am EST

Albany, N.Y., Medical Center will host a lecture on bioterrorism on Friday at noon in the Wiggers Auditorium.

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the 2002 recipient of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, will deliver the lecture.

Fauci was awarded the $500,000 prize this past April. The prize is made possible by New York City philanthropist and Troy, N.Y., native Morris "Marty" Silverman who made a $50 million gift to the Medical Center in 2000.

It is the second largest such prize in the world, after the Nobel Prize.

Parking for the lecture will be available in the Medical Center's Blue Lot.

For more information contact Gina Sleeper at 262-6008.

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Dr. Fauci won Albany Medical Center Prize for his research work on AIDS and his passion for helping AIDS patients

Published on May 13, 2009

Author: Benjamin Yang

Specialty: Immunology, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Rheumatology

Institution: Discovery Medicine

Address: 600 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, USA

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH since 1984, was named on March 27, 2002 the winner of the Albany Medical Center Prize. The $500,000 prize was established in November 2000 after New York businessman and philanthropist Mr. Morris Silverman donated $50 million to the Albany Medical Center.

The Prize was awarded to Dr. Fauci for his “seminal contributions in helping researchers understand how the AIDS virus destroys the body’s defenses, for his groundbreaking work in developing effective therapies for several once fatal rheumatic diseases, for his current efforts in spearheading the drive for vaccines to prevent the HIV virus, smallpox, anthrax and the Ebola virus, and for his overall scientific leadership and public service,” said James J. Barba, chairman, president and CEO of Albany Medical Center.

Anthony Stephen Fauci was born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Cornell University Medical College in 1966, he completed an internship and residency at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City and joined NIH in 1968.

Dr. Fauci was among the first to recognize that HIV lives in and destroys CD4 T cells, the cells entrusted with the duty to fight the virus. Later he found that HIV virus is active and replicating primarily in lymph nodes even during the clinically latent period. This finding published in Nature in 1993 was significant in at least two points: A, therapy should be given to patients all the time, even in latent periods; B, scientists became more realistic in dealings with the virus, aiming at long-term control of the virus instead of eradicating it.

Apart from his original contributions to science, Dr. Fauci demonstrated his passion and hardwork in helping AIDS patients, and skills in educating the public and politicians about the depth and scope of the AIDS epidemic and other health threats such as bioterrorism.

(Discovery Medicine, Vol. 1, No. 6, p3, 2002)