Kirsten St. George, M.App.Sc., Ph.D., F(AAM)
Wadsworth Center
Kirsten St. George, M.App.Sc., Ph.D., F(AAM), is director of virology and chief of viral diseases at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health. Located in Albany, New York, the Viral Diseases Laboratories include comprehensive diagnostic, reference and surveillance services including respiratory, exanthemous, encephalitic and gastrointestinal diseases and training for graduate students and fellows.
St. George is the principal investigator for national reference centers for influenza surveillance and vaccine preventable diseases and has additional federal and corporate funding for surveillance and research. Her research focuses on new test methods, viral evolution, genomic characterization, drug resistance and genomic disease associations. She is also the scientific director of the New York State Laboratory Consortium for SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing Surveillance.
St. George is the principal investigator for national reference centers for influenza surveillance and vaccine preventable diseases and has additional federal and corporate funding for surveillance and research. Her research focuses on new test methods, viral evolution, genomic characterization, drug resistance and genomic disease associations. She is also the scientific director of the New York State Laboratory Consortium for SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing Surveillance.