Gillian Griffiths


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.

Current research

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.
In 2024, she was appointed as the new Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, effective 1 April 2025.

Awards and honours

She is a Fellow at King's College, Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.