Robbie Loewith

Robbie J. Loewith was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He studied biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics at the University of Guelph before earning his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dallan Young at the University of Calgary. Following this, he completed postdoctoral work at the University of Basel Biozentrum with Prof. Michael Hall, where he discovered the two Target Of Rapamycin Complexes. In 2005, he started his independent research group in the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Geneva and became a full professor in 2015.