Diane Edmund Griffin (May 5, 1940 – October 28, 2024) was an American biologist who was the university distinguished professor and a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was the department chair from 1994 to 2015.
In 2004, Griffin was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the discipline of microbial biology.
[3] After earning her undergraduate degree from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, she joined a joint MD/PhD graduate program at Stanford University, where she pursued research on immunoglobulins.
Griffin received her PhD and MD in 1968 and remained at Stanford Hospital for her internship and residency.
[4] Griffin performed postdoctoral research in virology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.