Werner R. Loewenstein

Werner Loewenstein is an German-American scientist and author. He was the former chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. As a long-term member of the MBL community, Dr. Loewenstein started coming to the MBL as a visiting investigator in the mid-1950s and continued as a visiting researcher until 1994 when he moved full-time to the MBL to serve as a Senior Investigator, a position he held until 1999. At this time he also relocated the editorial office of the Journal of Membrane Biology to the MBL. “In 1994 Dr. Loewenstein and his wife, Dr. Birgit Rose Loewenstein, established the Laboratory of Cell Communication at the MBL, devoted to the study of intercellular communication. Their research focused on the cell-to-cell channel, a membrane channel built into the junctions between cells. Dr. Loewenstein became a member of the MBL Corporation in 1961 and served on the MBL Investment Committee in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was named a MBL Society Emeritus member in 2011.”