James Crowe, MD
Global Health Research Interests: Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Vaccinology
Countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Kenya, Spain
Dr. Crowe is an immunologist and board-certified pediatric infectious diseases specialist. He is University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Ann Scott Carell Chair, and Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center. He is also a University Distinguished Professor with tenure at Vanderbilt University and a Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering. His laboratory has a broad portfolio of work in viral immunology, aiming to discover mechanisms important to developing new vaccines.
Dr. Crowe received his M.D. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed his pediatrics residency. Following his clinical training, he received five years of post-doctoral training in the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at the NIH. He completed infectious diseases fellowship training in 1996 at Vanderbilt and has run an independent laboratory at Vanderbilt since that time. His work has been published in over 400 high-quality journals, including Cell, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA.
Dr. Crowe has received investigator awards from the March of Dimes, the American Society for Microbiology, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the Society for Pediatric Research. He has been awarded the Judson Infectious Daland Prize of the American Philosophical Society, the Oswald Avery Award of the IDSA, the E. Mead Johnson Award for Excellence in Pediatrics, the 2007 Outstanding Investigator Award of the American Federation for Medical Research, and the 2010 Norman J. Siegel Award of the American Pediatric Society. He received the 2022 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine, the 2022 R&D100 Award, and a R&D100 Gold Medal from the R&D100 Awards (“Oscars of Innovation”), selection for 2022 TIME Best Innovations of 2022, the 2023 Building the Foundation Award 2023 of Research!America, the 2023 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Davidson College, the 2023 Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the 2024 Award for Applied and Biotechnological Research of the American Society for Microbiology, and the 2024 Dale A. Smith Memorial Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies. He is an elected Fellow of AAM, AAAS, ASCI and AAP, IDSA, APS, and others. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014.
Education
MD, University of North Carolina