Alexander L. Greninger
researcher
Alexander L. Greninger is assistant director of the UW Medicine Clinical Virology Laboratory, director of the Retrovirology/Clinical Trials Laboratory, and the Larry Corey Endowed professor of Laboratory Medicine. His research is focused on genomic and proteomic characterization of a variety of human viruses and bacteria, with a focus on respiratory viruses and human herpesviruses.
Education
Greninger earned his M.D. and Ph.D., from UC San Francisco and his M.Phil. in Epidemiology from Cambridge in England, and his M.S. in Immunology, B.A. in International Relations, and B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford.
Career
Greninger helped in facilitating the first SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test outside CDC or public laboratories. He was nominated to the Power List of 2020 by The Pathologist. On March 2, 2020, the UW Medicine Clinical Virology Lab received federal Emergency Use Authorization to use their RT-PCR test as a diagnostic tool for UW Medicine patients. By winter of 2020, the UW Medicine Clinical Virology Lab went from three PCR machines to more than 30 high-volume machines. The lab worked with the School of Medicine to secure equipment and space. The lab had tested over 4 million nasal swabs.
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