Jan Löwe FRS (born 14 July 1967)[2] is a German molecular and structural biologist and the Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK.

in 1995 by the Technische Universität München, for his thesis work on the structure of the proteasome[6] completed at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry under the supervision of Robert Huber.

[2] Löwe worked briefly as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry,[7] 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.

[2] In 2018, the title of Honorary Professor of Structural and Molecular Microbiology at the University of Cambridge was conferred on him.

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