Gillian Griffiths,
FMedSci FRS 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.
Griffiths is Professor of Cell Biology and Immunology at the
University of Cambridge
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and is the Director of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.
Education
When she was young, Griffiths initially thought she might like to be an ecologist. However, she began her scientific career at
University College London
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by studying immunology. She continued in the subject, undertaking her PhD at the MRC
Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge supervised by
César Milstein
César Milstein, CH, FRS (8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002) was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for d ...
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Awards and honours
Griffiths holds a
Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of one of the predecessors of Glaxo ...
Principal Research Fellowship and she is a Fellow at
King's College, Cambridge
King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...
. Griffiths was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...
in 2013. Her nomination for the Royal Society reads
*2019: Awarded the
Buchanan Medal
The Buchanan Medal is awarded by the Royal Society "in recognition of distinguished contribution to the medical sciences generally". The award was created in 1897 from a fund to the memory of London physician Sir George Buchanan (1831–1895). It ...
of the Royal Society.
References
External links
Under the Microscope Killer T-cells video
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20th-century British biologists
20th-century British women scientists
21st-century British biologists
21st-century British women scientists
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of University College London
British immunologists
British women biologists
Fellows of King's College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
Fellows of the Royal Society
Female Fellows of the Royal Society
Living people
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)