James Crowe, Jr., M.D.

Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Dr. Crowe 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 or vaccination for a wide variety of major human pathogens, including avian influenza, chikungunya virus, Ebola virus, Zika virus and others. He is the Director of the Human Immunome Program, an ambitious effort to identify the sequence of all transcripts for adaptive immune receptors on the planet. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and has been the recipient of major investigator awards for research.