James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D.

James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D., is Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and the Ann Scott Carell Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology. His laboratory studies the human immune response to infection for a wide variety of major human pathogens, including many emerging infections. He is the Director of the Human Immunome Project, an ambitious effort to identify the sequence of all transcripts for human adaptive immune receptors.

He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Inventors and other major professional organizations. The work has been recognized by a number of international awards, including the ASM Award for Applied and Biotechnological Research, the Judson Daland Prize of the American Philosophical Society, the Oswald Avery Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Korsmeyer Award of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the inaugural Merck Future Insight Prize (2019).