Dale L. Greiner, PhD

Principal Investigator

Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Herman G. Berkman Chair in Diabetes Care Innovation

Dr. Greiner is internationally recognized for developing the first successful “humanized” mouse model, in collaboration with The Jackson Laboratory. Researchers have relied upon these novel animals since the 1990s to model human diseases and study, among other things, the immune response to the transplantation of pancreatic islet cells for diabetes. This work has generated high interest in the biomedical research community for use as a preclinical model for studying human diabetes, cancer, infectious diseases, regenerative medicine and autoimmunity. These novel animal models allow Dr. Greiner and his team to investigate type 1 diabetes and the cells that regulate immune responses in humans.

He serves as Vice Chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, a member of the Diabetes Research Center Executive Committee, and the Flow Cytometry Advisory Committee. Over the past 40 years, he has co-authored more than 300 publications in the research specialization areas of Immunology, Transplantation, Autoimmunity, and Diabetes. 

Dr. Greiner served as a regular member of the National Institutes of Health Immunology Sciences Study Section and the Hypersensitivity, Autoimmune, and Immune-mediated Diseases Study Section. He also served as Chair of the Veterans Administration Immunology Review Subcommittee B and Chair of many ad hoc NIH and JDRF study sections. In addition, he served as Chair of the JDRF Medical Science Review Committee, Chair of the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions Committee, as well as Program Chair and Council Chair of the American Diabetes Association Council on Immunology, Immunogenetics and Transplantation.

Among the awards Dr. Greiner has received for his research are the A.J. Julian Scholarship for Academic Excellence, the Basil O'Connor Scholar Research Award from the March of Dimes, and the JDRF Kayla and Gerald Grodsky and David Rumbough Awards.  

Education

B.S.,  University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
M.T.,  University of Iowa at Veterans Administration Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa 
National Medical Technology Certification (ASCP)
Ph.D.,  Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa