Gillian Griffiths

Professor Gillian Griffiths FRS FMedSci
Born	Gillian Margaret Griffiths
Alma mater	University College London (BSc) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards	FMedSci FRS (2013) Buchanan Medal (2019)
Scientific career
Fields	Immunology cell biology
Institutions	Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Thesis	Molecular analysis of the immune response  (1983)
Doctoral advisor	César Milstein
Website	med.cam.ac.uk/griffiths

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]}

Current research

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 1 April 2025. ^[3]

Awards and honours

She is a Fellow at King's College, Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. ^[1]

• 2019: Awarded the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society. ^[4]

References

1. "Professor Gillian Griffiths FMedSci FRS". The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
2. Gillian Griffiths's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
3. "Gillian Griffiths Named Chair of the Department of Cell Biology". 16 October 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
4. "Buchanan Medallist 2019". Royal Society. Retrieved 5 October 2019.