• Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Microbiology
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South Lake Union (SLU)
850 Republican Street
Room S130
Seattle, WA 98109
Campus Mail Box: 357110

Phone Number: 
206.221.7037
Email: 
agrening@uw.edu
Biography 

Alex Greninger, MD, PhD, MS, MPhil, is assistant director of the UW Medicine Clinical Virology Laboratory, director of the Retrovirology/Clinical Trials Laboratory, and a Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.

In addition to clinical and clinical trial responsibilities, Dr. Greninger focuses on genomic and proteomic characterization of a variety of human viruses and bacteria, with a focus on respiratory viruses and human herpesviruses. He has discovered a number of new human and animal viruses. His basic science lab at South Lake Union uses genomically informed approaches to understand human and animal infectious diseases.

Dr. Greninger earned his MD and PhD, from UC San Francisco, his MS in Immunology from Stanford and his MPhil in Epidemiology from Cambridge in England. Dr.Greninger has clinical interests in facilitating clinical and clinical trial testing for all viral diseases.

Education 
  • MS (Stanford University)
  • MPhil (Cambridge University)
  • PhD (University of California San Francisco)
Pathobiology research areas 
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