Ilana Löwy (née Zelmanowicz), born in 1948 in Łódź, Poland, is a historian of biomedical sciences and a feminist.
She works as a research director at an interdisciplinary and cross-institutional research unit CERMES-3 (Centre de recherche médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société, Inserm-CNRS-EHESS),[1] and is associated with the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London,[2] the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University[3] and Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro.
[4] Born in a Jewish family in Poland, her parents decided to leave for Israel in 1957.
[5] At the beginning of her career, Ilana Löwy worked at the Institut Pasteur at the Cellular immunity lab.
She has extensively published on Ludwik Fleck, Polish historian and philosopher of medicine.