2022 Pilot Grand Awardee, Johns Hopkins
Dr. James Gordy is a Research Associate in the Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (MMI) department in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. James received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Georgia studying microbiology and infectious disease biology respectively, performing research to understand the characteristics of hyper-thermophilic bacteria and to understand the dynamics of influenza virus prevalence in natural reservoir species. James then completed
his Ph.D. from the MMI department in 2016 in Dr. Richard Markham’s lab studying a therapeutic cancer vaccine. James continued in that lab for a Postdoctoral Fellowship, studying the combination of immune-stimulating drugs with the cancer vaccine. During this work, James developed a keen interest in the complexities of the interplay between vaccines and the immune system.