Thirty-One Days of Italians
Celebrating Italian heritage by acknowledging the accomplishments
of Italians and Italian Americans in America
The purpose of this website is
to educate others about the
significant contributions that
those of Italian heritage have
made to America.
Biographies range from one to
several paragraphs providing
an overview, and links to a
collection of selected
resources are provided for
more in-depth research.
The information is intended to
be shared and distributed;
however, the work in this
website is a result of massive
hours of researching,
organizing, creating, and
writing. If you use any of the
information on this website,
please give proper credit by
citing Thirty-One Days of
Italians and adding a link
to this website. Thank you.
jtmancuso@earthlink.net
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without permission except when published with this credit:
Excerpt from Thirty-One Days of Italians, ©2023 Janice Therese Mancuso.
At publication, all links were active.
Copyright 2007-2024
Janice Therese Mancuso
MEDICAL
Anthony Fauci (1940)
A native of Brooklyn, New York, from an early age Anthony Fauci worked in his family’s
pharmacy, delivering prescriptions. He attended a Jesuit high school and college, taking
philosophy and pre-med courses and graduated with his MD from Cornell University Medical
College.
During the Vietnam War, Dr. Fauci served as a “Yellow Beret” - a term physicians used to
describe their service in the military. Dr. Fauci was a Clinical Associate with the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), and credits his service as giving him “a very interesting
perspective on the relationship between disease and the basic science that you
have to study to be able to approach disease.”
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1982 to
2022, Dr. Fauci was a key advisor to the Federal Government on AIDS issues and one of the
most cited researchers and scientist in the world. In 2008, he received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom. He is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards including
the International AIDS Society Presidential Award (2016), the Research!America Legacy
Award (2017), and the Institute of Human Virology Lifetime Achievement Award (2015). In
2015, he was included in Modern Healthcare magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential
People in Healthcare.
In 2019, Dr. Fauci was honored “for 35 Years of Leadership in HIV Policy and Research” by
Aids United, and was recognized in the American Association of Immunologists inaugural
class of Distinguished Fellows. In 2020, Dr. Fauci began making headline news as a deadly
pandemic swept over the world. Often cited as an authority, his medical expertise helped
guide the United States through the early years of the deadly disease.
In August 2022, Dr. Fauci announced his would be “stepping down from the positions of
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of
the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor
to President Joe Biden. … leaving these positions in December of this year to pursue the
next chapter of my career.”
A press release from Georgetoen University in June 2023, announced Dr. Fauci will serve as
a distinguished University Professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine in
the Division of Infectious Diseases, starting July 1, 2023.
Introduction of Anthony S. Fauci, MD
Anthony S. Fauci, MD Biography [NIH]
Meet America’s Point Man on Infectious Disease [CBS News]
A Goal of Service to Humankind [NPR]
Statement by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. [August 22, 2022]
NEW Fauci Reflects on Missteps, Successes of the US Covid-19 Pandemic Response
NEW Dr. Anthony Fauci To Join Georgetown Faculty as Distinguished University Professor
Profiles, Awards, and Honors [National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases]
The Legacy of the “Yellow Berets”
Robert Charles Gallo (1937)
Founder and director of the Institute of Human Virology (in partnership with Baltimore, Maryland, and the Maryland University
system) Dr. Gallo is co-discoverer of the HIV strain that causes AIDS, and developed the HIV blood test. An expert in biomedical
research, he also discovered the human leukemia virus (HTLV) and that chemokines, a natural compound, can stop the
progression of AIDS. His discoveries have earned him worldwide awards and honors for his contributions to medicine.
In his early teens, Gallo was affected by his sister’s death from leukemia, which caused his interest in learning about blood cells
and developed into a career in microbiology, specializing in retroviruses (a virus that replicates itself). After receiving a degree in
biology and a Doctor of Medicine, and completing his medical residency, in 1965 he was appointed a position at the National
Institutes of Health, where he treated cancer patients. In 1971, Dr. Gallo was appointed head of a new research facility of the NIH
National Cancer Institute, the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology.
His lab’s continued research in retroviruses led to the discovery of several types of blood cells that cause viral diseases, and to the
discovery of HTLV, human T-cell leukemia virus, closely aligned with HIV. Controversies in regard to his lab’s findings emerged
during the mid-1970s, and again in the mid-1980s in regard to the discovery of HIV. In 1991, the NIH and the Pasteur Institute in
France agreed to share the discovery.
About Dr. Robert C. Gallo
NIH Eminent Scientist Profiles
Science Connections: Robert C. Gallo
Red Gold, The Epic Story of Blood: Robert Gallo
AIDS at 20: A Look Back, A Look Ahead with World-Renowned Scientist Dr. Robert Gallo
Discovering the Cause of AIDS
America Hoists the White Flag in HIV War (June 7, 1991)
Was Robert Gallo Robbed of the Nobel Prize? (October 7, 2008)
Robert Gallo: “Facing a pandemic as if it were an invasion of Martians”