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 |
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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
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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]
Awards and honours
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b "Professor Gillian Griffiths FMedSci FRS". The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
- ^ Gillian Griffiths's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "Gillian Griffiths Named Chair of the Department of Cell Biology". 16 October 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Buchanan Medallist 2019". Royal Society. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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