Fauci says he plans to retire by end of Biden’s current term

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the United States’ top infectious disease expert since 1984.

Fauci, right, briefs President Ronald Reagan, far left, and other members of the President’s Commission on AIDS in 1987.

Fauci, as the chief of AIDS research at the National Institutes of Health, talks with colleagues in his laboratory in 1990.

Fauci testifies to a House subcommittee during a 2001 hearing about vaccines for biological weapon defense.

Fauci looks over his notes before testifying to a Senate committee about SARS in 2003.

Fauci, right, speaks with Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt at a pandemic planning conference in Washington in 2005. At center is Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Fauci speaks to Dr. H. Clifford Lane at the National Institutes of Health in 2007.

In 2008, US President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Fauci “for his determined and aggressive efforts to help others live longer and healthier lives.”

Fauci is seen in the foreground while testifying to the House about an H1N1 vaccine in 2009.

Fauci hugs Nina Pham, a Texas nurse who had been infected with Ebola, after she was declared Ebola-free in 2014.

Fauci talks with President Barack Obama while Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell looks on in 2014. It was during a tour of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health.

In 2016, Fauci listens during a discussion about the Zika virus at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington.

Fauci and President Donald Trump look at coronavirus models during a tour of the National Institutes of Health in March 2020.

Fauci displays guidelines to slow the spread of the coronavirus during a White House news conference in March 2020.

Fauci wears a mask while President Donald Trump speaks about vaccine development in May 2020.

Fauci throws out the ceremonial first pitch before a Major League Baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals in July 2020.

In December 2020, Fauci receives his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Fauci, next to President Joe Biden, talks at the White House about a new Covid-19 variant in November 2021. Fauci has been chief medical adviser to the President since January 2021.

Fauci testifies before a House subcommittee during a budget hearing in May 2022.