Stanford Pathology in the News
Testing at the speed of COVID
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Benjamin Pinsky, MD, PhD
Stanford launched its diagnostic when the pandemic had barely begun — but challenges kept on coming
It was Saturday morning, March 14, and infectious disease specialist Benjamin Pinsky, MD, PhD, was knocking on the locked entry door at the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine while simultaneously fielding a phone call. “Oh, there’s someone! I think they are going to open the doors for me.”
Pinsky, an associate professor of pathology and the medical director of Stanford’s Clinical Virology Laboratory, needed access...
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Article by Krista Conger
Illustration by David Plunkert
Aug. 13, 2020, Stanford Office of Communications