Diane E. Griffin

Diane E. Griffin, MD PhD is University Distinguished Service Professor and former Chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Vice President of the US National Academy of Sciences. She earned her BA in Biology from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL and her MD and PhD in Immunology from Stanford University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in virology and infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and joined the Department of Medicine faculty in 1974. She is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Academy of Microbiology, the Association of American Physicians and the AAAS and a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Medicine and the NAS. She has been President of the American Society for Virology and the American Society for Microbiology and Vice President of the NAS. Awards include the Rudolf Virchow Medal, FASEB Excellence in Science, Maxwell Finland Award from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and Alice C Evans Award from the American Society for Microbiology.
Dr. Griffin was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and grew up in Oklahoma City. She graduated from Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois with a degree in biology and from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1968 with a Ph.D. in immunology and M.D., followed by a residency in internal medicine. She was a postdoctoral fellow in virology and infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and joined the faculty in 1974. She has been president of the American Society for Virology and of the American Society for Microbiology and is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.