[3] A native of Brooklyn, New York, Loew attended Erasmus Hall High School and then went on to earn a bachelor's degree from New York University and a master's from Columbia, both in chemistry, before going on to doctoral work at UC Berkeley, where she earned a PhD in chemical physics.
[1] According to Harel Weinstein and Hugo O. Villar, she became "a pioneer in the application of computational chemistry to problems in the biological sciences".
[1] The research of Loew's that remained critical to those that followed her was the cytochrome P450 protein family and her thirty years of investigation into their characteristics and properties, along with their three dimensional structure and how they interfaced with enzymatic substrates.
In doing this research, Loew pioneered using new forms of technology that became available over the years, including numerous advances in computer modeling of proteins.
[5] Loew, related to said research, wrote a chapter on the properties of iron porphyrins for the first volume of the textbook series Physical Bioinorganic Chemistry in 1983.