James Crowe Jr., MD, third from left, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, was among those to receive 2023 Advocacy Awards from Research!America at the biomedical research advocacy organization’s annual awards program in Washington, D.C. Crowe received the Building the Foundation Award for his team’s role in developing human monoclonal antibodies and vaccine candidates against COVID-19.

Pictured with Crowe are, from left: moderator Bill Novelli; Deborah Brooks, CEO and co-founder of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research; Erik Ewers, filmmaker, co-director and editor of “Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness;” Helene Gayle, MD, MPH, president of Spelman College; and Margaret Hamburg, MD, former FDA Commissioner, President, InterAcademy Partnership for Science, Health and Policy.