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Diana W. Bianchi

Research and career
Diana W. Bianchi is the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dr. Bianchi received her B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and her M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1980. She completed her residency training in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital, Boston and her postdoctoral fellowship training in both Medical Genetics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Harvard.

Awards and honours
2020: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam for 'her crucial contributions to research into the health of mother and child before as well as during pregnancy'

2019: ISPD Pioneer Award

2017: J.E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine