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Dr. Bianchi has most recently served for eight years as the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the NIH. Prior to her federal appointment she was the Natalie V. Zucker Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine. She was the Founding Executive Director of the Mother Infant Research Institute (now known as at the Women, Mother + Baby [WOMB] Institute) at Tufts Medical Center. Dr. Bianchi is a member of the National  Academy of Medicine, and she has served in leadership roles at the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis, the American Society of Human Genetics, the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society. She has received multiple national and international awards, including an honorary PhD from the University of Amsterdam.

Dr. Bianchi’s research has led to major changes in prenatal genetic screening, and more recently, an appreciation that prenatal testing incidentally detects maternal cancer. Her work has been continuously funded by federal and foundation sources. She has over 380 original publications and is a co-author of the award-winning textbook, Fetology: Diagnosis and Management of the Fetal Patient. She has trained over 50 pre- and post-doctoral scholars.