Dr. Lowen is a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University and Co-Principal Investigator of the Emory Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response (CEIRR). She received her BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Alberta, her PhD in Virology from the University of Glasgow, and completed her post-doctoral training with Dr. Peter Palese at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

The Lowen Lab exploits molecular tools, classical virology, and animal models of infection to study the biology of RNA viruses, including influenza A virus, mammalian orthoreovirus, and SARS-CoV-2. They are interested in features of viral biology that shape evolutionary dynamics and in the respiratory transmission of influenza A virus and SARS-CoV-2.