Fauci and Grady’s youngest daughter is Alison Christine Fauci, who was born in April 1992. She and her sisters attended the private, all-girls National Cathedral School located in Washington, D.C.

Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady, has an esteemed medical career of her own. She is the chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, a position she has held since 2012. Anthony Fauci was raised in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Stephen, attended Columbia University and became a pharmacist. His mother, Eugenia, went to Hunter College. They got married after graduating from high school. Jennifer Fauci majored in social studies at Harvard University and graduated in 2008. According to her LinkedIn profile, she earned a master’s degree in developmental and child psychology from Columbia University in 2013. She also has a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Boston College. (She has also since removed her LinkedIn profile). Anthony Fauci’s grandparents, on both sides of his family, were immigrants from Italy. According to the NIH, his father’s side of the family was originally from Sciacca, Sicily, and ran a hot springs spa. Fauci’s maternal grandparents immigrated from Naples. His grandfather on that side of the family worked as an artist. According to the National Institutes of Health, Stephen and Eugenia Fauci ran a neighborhood pharmacy in Bensonhurst and the family lived in an apartment above the business. Anthony Fauci delivered prescriptions on his bicycle while his older sister, Denise, helped to run the cash register.

5. Anthony Fauci’s Parents Owned a Pharmacy in Brooklyn & His Grandparents Were Immigrants From Italy

Grady was working as a nurse with the NIH Clinical Center in 1983 when she met Fauci. He told the Financial Times that they met over the bed of a patient. They got married in 1985 and began expanding their family the next year. When choosing a faucet, quality is the first thing to consider. "Why have a cute faucet that leaks?"says Delia Kenza of Delia Kenza Interiors, a Brooklyn-based interior designer. After all, water is one of the most destructive elements any fixture in your home will be subjected to. Grady was on the frontlines in the early fight against AIDS in the 1980s. Her thesis was about the ethical issues surrounding the development of a vaccine to prevent or treat HIV and AIDS. The report, titled “The Search for an AIDS Vaccine: Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventive HIV Vaccine,” was published as a book in 1995.

While still a student herself, Jennifer Fauci began working as a teacher. She taught sixth-grade science for a nonprofit charter school organization in Brooklyn from 2008 to 2010. For six months in 2011, she served as an intervention teacher in Washington, D.C. Serving as a teaching assistant and instructor was also part of her responsibilities as a graduate student at Columbia.

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After graduating from high school, Alison Fauci relocated to the west coast for college and has continued to live on that side of the country ever since. She attended Stanford University and majored in computer science. Fauci and Grady’s oldest daughter, Jennifer Ellen Fauci, arrived in August 1986, the year after they tied the knot. She followed her parent’s footsteps into the world of medicine but chose a different route.Currently, Jennifer Fauci works for the Cambridge Health Alliance, an academic community health care system in Massachusetts. She is a post-doctoral psychology fellow with a focus on child and adolescent acute services.