Welcome to the home of the Grier Lab at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville!

Our lab is interested in the intrinsic intracellular immune response to pathogens. We are primarily interested in responses to respiratory viral infections such as influenza, RSV, or SARS-CoV-2, as well as secondary bacterial infections. Many of our bacterial studies are focused on the pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii, which is rapidly becoming resistant to most, if not all, approved classes of antibiotics.

Collaborative projects also include the investigation of the impacts of socioeconomic factors on community-acquired pediatric infections to identify and address health disparities, as well as investigations into the interactions between stress, burnout, and immunity.

Our team is made up of a great group of undergraduate and medical student researchers. Check out the members of the lab on our Researchers page!

An important emphasis of the lab is student training.  To help students starting out in any lab, we've put together a list of publicly available training information on common lab techniques, which you can find by heading over to the Training Resource Links.

If you have any questions, please contact Dr.  Jennifer Grier.