By Kaylee Pugliese and Hallie Leo
UMass Chan Medical School Communications
January 23, 2023
Ethan Loew’s passionateness for problem-solving and his family’s inheritance moving connected Italian olive farms animate his world pursuits arsenic an MD/PhD pupil astatine UMass Chan Medical School and substance his tendency to springiness backmost done mentorship.
After majoring successful chemistry astatine Union College, Loew was torn betwixt practicing seat subject oregon becoming a clinician. His acquisition moving arsenic a laboratory technician astatine Harvard portion volunteering successful a infirmary showed him however helium could harvester the two.
“When I was seeing patients successful the hospital, we’d brushwood up against the limits of what medicine and aesculapian exertion could offer,” said Loew. “At the aforesaid time, I was moving successful the laboratory and seeing agleam researchers and postgraduate students addressing these limitations. I saw myself moving astatine that interface betwixt aesculapian subject and seeing patients to present caller technologies to folks looking for caller hope.”
Working with Beth A. McCormick, PhD, the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Chair II, vice seat and prof and of microbiology & physiological systems and manager of the Program successful Microbiome Dynamics; and John P. Haran, MD, PhD, subordinate prof of exigency medicine and microbiology & physiological systems and objective manager of the UMass Center for Microbiome Research astatine UMass Chan, Loew approaches Alzheimer’s illness from the gut.
“We’re looking astatine a cohort of older big volunteers to spot however their cognitive symptoms alteration implicit a play of clip alongside changes successful their microbiome, which encompasses each the bacteria and viruses that unrecorded successful our guts, to recognize however these bacteria and viruses mightiness beryllium starring to curb impairment arsenic we age,” Loew said.
Loew grew up successful Attleboro and finds a transportation betwixt his knack for tactile activities and his family’s past moving connected Italian olive farms.
“My parent and her parents immigrated from Italy. They grew up successful a mediocre assemblage moving connected olive farms making olive lipid and tobacco. This stuck with maine arsenic portion of my property due to the fact that I truly similar hands-on things. I similar moving with cars. I similar to physique things. It besides translates to my research, focusing connected aspects of medicine that are much procedural.”
Loew mentors students successful the UMass Chan Baccalaureate MD Pathway Program, which prepares underrepresented students for the med schoolhouse exertion process, and serves connected the UMass Chan admissions committee.
The Student Spotlight bid features UMass Chan Medical School students successful the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing and T.H. Chan School of Medicine. For much accusation astir UMass Chan Medical School and however to apply, sojourn the Prospective Students page.
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