Diana Bianchi

The National Institutes of Health has appointed Diana Bianchi as director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). She is expected to join the NIH on Oct. 31. Bianchi will join NICHD from the Floating Hospital for Children and Tufts Medical Center, where she serves as the founding executive director of the Mother Infant Research Institute and vice chair for pediatric research. She also serves as a professor of pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine, and as the editor-in-chief of the international journal Prenatal Diagnosis.