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William J Moss, Ann M Arvin, Epilogue Reflection: Diane E. Griffin, MD, PhD, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 231, Issue 4, 15 April 2025, Pages e599–e600, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf017
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Diane E. Griffin, MD, PhD, a renowned virologist, immunologist, and educator, died on 28 October 2024 at the age of 84. At the time of her death, she was University Distinguished Service Professor and the 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. A pioneering expert in the pathogenesis of viral infections of the nervous system, particularly alphaviruses and measles virus, she made many seminal scientific contributions, led prominent organizations, and trained generations of scientists.
Diane Edmund was born on 5 May 1940, in Iowa City, Iowa, and grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She graduated in 1962 from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, with a degree in biology and earned her MD and PhD in Immunology from Stanford University. During medical school she met her husband John (Jack) Griffin, and they married in 1965. Jack Griffin, who died in 2011, was a renowned neurologist and former chair of the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Diane completed her residency in internal medicine at Stanford and was then a postdoctoral fellow in virology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she joined the faculty in 1974. She rose through the ranks and became professor and chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, serving as department chair from 1994 through 2014. In 2015, she became a University Distinguished Service Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
