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Michael Lowe

  • Department of Surgery
    Associate Professor
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Overview

Dr. Lowe received his MD and graduated cum laude from Georgetown University School of Medicine. He served as administrative chief resident during the final year of his general surgery residency at the Emory Department of Surgery. He joined the Emory faculty after completing a fellowship in complex general surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Lowe received several awards during his training years, including the Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons in 2011 and 2012.

His clinical practice and research interests focus on cutaneous malignancies, particularly melanoma and Merkel cell carcinoma, and he is known for building a cutaneous malignancy program at Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital. Watch Dr. Lowe discuss aspects of treating melanoma in these educational videos produced by the Winship Cancer Institute: treating a recurrence of melanoma, using surgery to treat melanoma, and the role of the sentinel lymph node in melanoma.

In 2018, Dr. Lowe received the Society of Surgical Oncology's (SSO) Young Investigator Award for his study, "Evaluation of FcyRIIB as a Novel T cell Inhibitor in Cutaneous Melanoma." The study is investigating new pathways to enhance the immune system's response to melanoma, defining the role of the Fc receptor FcyRIIB in promoting exhaustion in T cell responses to tumor growth, and examining the benefits of blocking FcyRIIB's ability to alter T cell responses.

Academic Appointment

  • Associate Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Degrees

  • MD from Georgetown University
  • MA from Georgetown University

Research

Publications

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