Name Gillian Griffiths | Doctoral advisor Cesar Milstein | |
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Institutions Cambridge Institute for Medical ResearchLaboratory of Molecular Biology Thesis Molecular analysis of the immune response (1983) Institution Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Laboratory of Molecular Biology | ||
Notable awards FMedSciFRS (2013) | ||
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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 and is the Director of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.
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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 by studying immunology. She continued in the subject, undertaking her PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge supervised by César Milstein.
Awards and honours
Griffiths holds a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship and she is a Fellow at King's College Cambridge. Griffiths was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. Her nomination for the Royal Society reads