James Crowe was born August 14, 1961, in
Nashville, Tennessee. He received his
B.S. from
Davidson College in 1983. Then went on to medical school at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, completing his M.D. in 1987. He continued at the University of North Carolina for his pediatric internship and residency from 1987 to 1990. Following his medical training, Crowe moved to the U.S.
National Institutes of Health in 1990 serving first as a Medical Staff Fellow from 1990 to 1993 under
Robert Chanock and
Brian R. Murphy, then as a Senior Research Investigator in the Laboratoy of Infectious Diseases from 1993 to 1995. He then completed a clinical fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt Medical Center before being appointed to the faculty as an
assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics in 1996. Crowe was subsequently promoted to
associate professor in 2001, and to full professor in the Department of Pediatrics in 2004. He is currently in Ann Scott Carell Chair at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, an
endowed professorship as well as Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center. In 2014, Crowe was elected to the
National Academy of Medicine. ==Research==