Warner Greene, MD, PhD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

415-734-4805

Warner C. Greene, MD, PhD is Director of the Gladstone Center for HIV Cure Research, Senior Investigator, and Nick and Sue Hellmann Distinguished Professor of Translational Medicine at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI). He is the Founding and Emeritus Director of GIVI. Dr. Greene is also Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and of Immunology at UCSF.

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Dr. Greene is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. He also serves as Co-Director of the UCSF-Gladstone Center for AIDS Research, and has served as a Councilor and President of the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Greene earned a bachelor’s degree at Stanford University and an MD/PhD at Washington University School of Medicine. He took his internship and residency training in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard. After serving as a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute and a Professor of Medicine and Howard Hughes Investigator at Duke University Medical Center, Dr. Greene accepted his current position as the Founding Director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology in 1991. The ongoing research in Dr. Greene’s laboratory focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying HIV pathogenesis, latency, and transmission. He is the author of more than 380 scientific papers and has been recognized as one of the 100 Most Cited Scientists in the world. In 2007, Dr. Greene expanded his work to include global health in sub-Saharan Africa in his service as president and executive chairman of the Accordia Global Health Foundation. Accordia established the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University in Uganda, which has trained thousands of African health care workers, is caring for 30,000 HIV-infected patients, and has brought health care to nearly 500,000 people living in remote rural regions of Uganda. In 2016, Accordia merged with Africare.

Awards

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  • Lifetime Achievement Award for Scientific Contributions, Institute of Human Virology, 2019
  • • Honorary Doctoral Degree and Commencement Speaker, Drexel University, 2015
  • Elected as Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2014
  • Francis Gilman Blake Award, Association of American Physicians, 2013
  • President, Association of American Physicians, 2012-2013
  • Distinguished Research Career Award, Ohio State University Center for Retrovirus Research, 2012
  • Alumni Achievement Award, Washington University in St. Louis, 2012
  • Center Director, Global Virus Network, 2011-pres
  • President-Elect, Association of American Physicians, 2011-2012
  • Councilor, Association of American Physicians, 2005-2011
  • Elected as Member, National Academy of Medicine, 2005
  • Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004
  • Honorary Co-Chair, AIDS Memorial Advisory Board, 2003-pres
  • Board of Directors, Academic Alliance Foundation, 2003-pres
  • Selected as Original Member, ISI Highly Cited Researchers, 2001
  • Executive Committee and Chair of Scientific Committee, Waterford Project, 2000
  • Institutional Representative, American Society for Clinical Investigation, 1998-2001
  • Member, Mayor's AIDS Scientific Advisory Council, 1997-1998
  • Co-Chair, Keystone AIDS Symposium, 1995
  • Co-Chair, Scientific Committee, 1st-3rd National Conferences on Human Retroviruses & Related Infections, 1994-1996
  • Vice President, American Society for Clinical Investigation, 1993-1994
  • Elected, California Academy of Medicine, 1993
  • Elected, Association of American Physicians, 1990
  • Recipient, Young Investigator Award, American Rheumatism Association, 1988
  • Recipient, Outstanding Investigator Award, American Federation for Clinical Research, 1987
  • Elected, American Society for Clinical Investigation, 1985
  • Recipient, Award in the Biological Sciences, Washington Academy of Sciences, 1984
  • 100 Most Cited Scientists, Institute for Scientific Information (Science Citation Index), 1981-1988
  • Elected Member, Alpha Omega Alpha, 1977
  • Prize in Medicine, St. Louis Internists, 1977
  • Research Honorary, Sigma Xi, 1976
  • Honors Program in Biology, Stanford University, 1970-1971
  • Recipient, Research Fellowship Award, California Heart Association, 1970

Education & Training

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  • Internal Medicine Residency Massachusetts General Hospital 1979
  • Internal Medicine Internship Massachusetts General Hospital 1978
  • MD, PhD Medical Scientist Training Program Washington University School of Medicine 1977
  • BA Stanford University 1971

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Grants and Projects

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Publications (382)

Top publication keywords:
HIV-1NF-kappa BVirus LatencyHuman T-lymphotropic virus 1CD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCytidine DeaminaseReceptors, ImmunologicAmyloidReceptors, Interleukin-2Interleukin-2Gene Products, nefHIV InfectionsSemenVirus ReplicationHIV

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