Coronavirus, US scientist of Sicilian origin works on a vaccine – Liveunict

The doctor is an excellence of the American scientific world chosen by Trump among the consultants of the American government to find a possible cure for Coronavirus. The surname reveals its Sicilian origin.

“Congratulations to Anthony Fauci, a 79-year-old Saccense father, world-renowned immunologist inserted by the President of the United States of America D. J. Trump in the group of experts who deal with Coronavirus“These are the words contained in the press release of the Sicily Region to praise the excellence of the world scientific community of Sicilian origin. Of Sicilian origin – Fauci’s paternal grandparents were from Sciacca – Anthony Fauci is a world-renowned immunologist and, precisely for this reason, President Trump has chosen him as a consultant to help him put in place a strategy with which to fight and defeat the Coronavirus.

Fauci boasts a respectable curriculum: he is director of the American Institute for the Study of Infectious Diseases Niaid (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and, since last January, he has been working with the modern biotechnology company and with Cepi (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation), to the study of a vaccine.

Fauci was born in Brooklyn and his paternal grandparents came from the charming town of Sciacca. Her grandfather was called Antonino Fauci, the grandmother Calogera Guardino. The maternal grandparents instead came from Naples. Both groups of grandparents emigrated to New York City in the early twentieth century and initially settled in Manhattan’s Little Italy, where Tony’s mom, Eugenia Abys, and dad, Stephen Fauci, were born, who later became a pharmacist. During his university studies in Medicine, Anthony helped his father in the pharmacy.