[3] Alongside UW Medicine's head of virology, Alex Greninger and Keith Jerome were named Innovators of the Year 2020 by the University of Washington School of Medicine for their foresight and innovation in developing one of the first tests in the country that detects COVID-19.
[4][5] Greninger's laboratory in South Lake Union's neighborhood of Seattle, WA at the University of Washington School of Medicine focuses on understanding viruses using a wide range of techniques including next-generation sequencing, culture models and screens, and biochemical/biophysical characterization of viral gene products.
[6][7][8][9][10] Greninger received the 2024 ASM Early Career Clinical Microbiology Research Award.
[11] He was recognized at the 11th International Conference on HHV-6 & 7, for his work in the comparative, genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic re-annotation of HHV-6A/B, as well as his analysis of the heterogeneity, large origin tandem repeats and interspecies recombination in HHV-6A/B reference strains.
[12] He also received the Young Investigator Award by PASCV in 2017, Churchill Scholar for study at Cambridge University in 2004, Marco Escobar Award, American Society of Microbiology in 2016, was named to American Society of Clinical Pathologists "40 under 40" in 2017, the Strandjord-Clayson Award in 2018, and was named president, Associated Students of University of California-San Francisco during his Medical Scientist Training.