Jan Löwe
Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)
About Jan Löwe
Born 1967. Jan Löwe is a biochemist, molecular biologist and scientist.
Education
Löwe was awarded a Diploma in Chemistry by the University of Hamburg in 1992. completed at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry under the supervision of Robert Huber. before moving to MRC-LMB in 1996 to take up an EMBO long-term fellowship to work on crystallising FtsZ, a bacterial homologue of eukaryotic tubulin, with Linda A. Amos. Löwe became a group leader at MRC-LMB in 1998 and was awarded tenure in 2002.
Awards and honours 1996 Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society 2002 Leverhulme Prize for Biochemistry 2004 Member, European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) 2007 EMBO Gold Medal 2008 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
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Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)
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Jan Löwe was born on 14 July 1967.
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