James Gordy, PhD, Promoted to Assistant Research Professor
MI's James Gordy, PhD, was recently promoted to Assistant Research Professor
James Gordy, PhD, Promoted to Assistant Research Professor
James Gordy, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (MMI), has been promoted to Assistant Research Professor.
Gordy is an immunologist who studies DNA and mRNA vaccines in systems of tuberculosis, melanoma, malaria, and other infections and diseases.
Gordy grew up in rural north Georgia. He earned his PhD studying therapeutic cancer vaccines in the laboratory of MMI Professor Richard Markham. He remained in the department to pursue postdoctoral studies, where he focused on a therapeutic tuberculosis vaccine. He collaborated with the Karakousis Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. During the pandemic, his research pivoted to study SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. He is using the findings from his previous vaccine work to better understand nucleic acid vaccine mechanisms, with a focus on the interplay of dendritic cells and T cells and alternative administration modalities, including intranasal and jet-injection, and vaccine sex differences.
Gordy joined the Bloomberg School as a graduate student in 2011.
He has published 17 research articles and reviews in immunological journals, including Vaccine and Journal for the ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.