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Gillian Griffiths | |
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Born | Gillian Margaret Griffiths |
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Thesis | Molecular analysis of the immune response (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | César Milstein |
Website | med |
Gillian Margaret Griffiths is a British cell biologist and immunologist. Griffiths was one of the first to show that immune cells have specialised mechanisms of secretion, and identified proteins and mechanisms that control cytotoxic T-lymphocyte secretion. [1] [2]
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Griffiths is Professor of Cell Biology and Immunology at the University of Cambridge, running a research laboratory at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. She was Director of CIMR from 2013 until 2017. [ citation needed ]
In 2024, she was appointed as the new Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, effective 1st April 2025. [3]
She is a Fellow at King's College, Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. [1]