{{short description|British biologist and immunologist}} {{Multiple issues| {{Technical|date=June 2025}} {{Independent sources|date=June 2025}} }} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = Professor | name = Gillian Griffiths | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRS|FMedSci}} | birth_name = Gillian Margaret Griffiths | native_name_lang = | image = <!--(as myimage.jpg, no 'File:')--> | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date|df=y|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=y|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_co-ordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} --> | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = {{Plainlist| * Immunology * cell biology }} | workplaces = {{Plainlist| * Cambridge Institute for Medical Research * Laboratory of Molecular Biology}} | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * University College London (BSc) * University of Cambridge (PhD)}} | thesis_title = Molecular analysis of the immune response | thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.351293 | thesis_year = 1983 | doctoral_advisor = César Milstein | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = {{Plainlist| *FMedSci *FRS (2013) *Buchanan Medal (2019)}} | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|med.cam.ac.uk/griffiths}} | footnotes = | spouse = | children = }} '''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.<ref name="Professor Gillian Griffiths FMedSci FRS">{{cite web|title=Professor Gillian Griffiths FMedSci FRS|url=http://royalsociety.org/people/gillian-griffiths/|publisher=The Royal Society|accessdate=11 October 2013|archive-date=20 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620032823/https://royalsociety.org/people/gillian-griffiths/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="scopus">{{Scopus|id=7202289533}}</ref>
==Current research== {{Technical|date=March 2025|section}} 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|date=June 2025}}
In 2024, she was appointed as the new Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, effective 1 April 2025.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gillian Griffiths Named Chair of the Department of Cell Biology |url=https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/gillian-griffiths-named-chair-of-the-department-of-cell-biology/ |access-date=3 January 2025 |date=16 October 2024}}</ref>
==Awards and honours== She is a Fellow at King's College, Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.<ref name="Professor Gillian Griffiths FMedSci FRS"/>
*2019: Awarded the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/buchanan-medal/|title=Buchanan Medallist 2019|publisher=Royal Society|accessdate= 5 October 2019}}</ref>
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