# Gillian Griffiths

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{{short description|British biologist and immunologist}}
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| name              = Gillian Griffiths
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| birth_name        = Gillian Margaret Griffiths
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* [Immunology](/source/Immunology) 
* [cell biology](/source/cell_biology) }}
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* [Cambridge Institute for Medical Research](/source/Cambridge_Biomedical_Campus)
* [Laboratory of Molecular Biology](/source/Laboratory_of_Molecular_Biology)}}
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* [University College London](/source/University_College_London) (BSc)
* [University of Cambridge](/source/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](/source/C%C3%A9sar_Milstein)
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*[FMedSci](/source/FMedSci) 
*[FRS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society) (2013)
*[Buchanan Medal](/source/Buchanan_Medal) (2019)}}
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'''Gillian Margaret Griffiths''' is a British [cell biologist](/source/Cell_biology) and [immunologist](/source/Immunology). Griffiths was one of the first to show that immune cells have specialised mechanisms of secretion, and identified [proteins](/source/proteins) and mechanisms that control cytotoxic [T-lymphocyte](/source/T_cell) 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==
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Griffiths is Professor of Cell Biology and Immunology at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge), running a research laboratory at the [Cambridge Institute for Medical Research](/source/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](/source/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](/source/King's_College%2C_Cambridge) and was elected a [Fellow of the Royal Society](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society) in 2013.<ref name="Professor Gillian Griffiths FMedSci FRS"/>

*2019: Awarded the [Buchanan Medal](/source/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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