Dr. Diana Finzi is the Director of the Basic Sciences Program (BSP) in the Division of AIDS (DAIDS), National Institutes of Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and National Institutes of Health (NIH). Diana oversees a global HIV/AIDS research portfolio and is responsible for planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating research projects in the areas of HIV epidemiology, basic science, pathogenesis, targeted interventions, and cure. Under her leadership, the BSP has greatly expanded work on HIV cure through more than 100 awarded grants, which include the Martin Delaney Collaboratories, Beyond HAART, and the Targeting Persistent HIV Reservoirs grants. She earned her PhD at Johns Hopkins University in Dr. Robert Siliciano’s laboratory where she contributed to the discovery that HIV establishes latency and persists in CD4 cells of treated patients. She also holds a MPH from Yale University where she studied murine immune responses to Coronaviruses.