Alex Greninger, MD, PhD, MS, MPhil, 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 and Pathology.

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 infectious diseases.

Dr. Greninger earned his M.D. and Ph.D., from UC San Francisco, his M.S. in Immunology from Stanford and his M.Phil. in Epidemiology from Cambridge in England. Dr. Greninger has clinical interests in facilitating clinical trial testing for respiratory viruses and human herpesviruses.