James Crowe, Jr., M.D.

Dr. Crowe is Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and the Ann Scott Carell Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology. He is a board certified pediatric infectious diseases physician and viral immunology researcher. His laboratory studies the human immune response to infection or vaccination for a wide variety of major human pathogens. He is the Director of the HUMAN IMMUNOME PROJECT, an ambitious effort to identify the sequence of all transcripts for human adaptive immune receptors on the planet. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and has authored over 350 publications to date and is a named inventor on about 50 patents for vaccines and antibodies. A number of vaccine candidates and human monoclonal antibodies developed in the course of his research have been tested in humans.