Scott Lowe, researcher: ‘Governments must fund science. Pharmaceutical companies want to help, but they also want to make money’
Scott Lowe thought that he wanted to be a chemical engineer… but he was wrong. He was fascinated by the amino acid structures that his college roommate was studying. This led him to biochemistry, genetics, and research. He then worked at places like Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island and at MIT in Massachusetts. And, for the past few years, he has led a large team at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, one of the world’s most prestigious cancer centers. There, he studies processes related to cancer and aging, heading up the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program.
