Franklin Martin Loew, DVM, PhD, (b. Syracuse, NY, 1939; d. Boston, MA, 2003) was president of Becker College

Becker College

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, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University

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 and dean of Tufts University

Tufts University

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 School of Veterinary Medicine (now Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

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).

Early career

Loew grew up in Syracuse, New York

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. He received his undergraduate degree and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell and a doctorate in nutrition

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 from the University of Saskatchewan

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. During the 1970s, Loew was one of the many members of the research team that developed canola oil. In 1977, the Governor-General of Canada awarded Loew a Queen's Jubilee Medal. In the same year, he became the head of the Division of Comparative Medicine at Johns Hopkins University

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.

Tufts

Loew became the second dean of the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in 1982. While at Tufts, he created the Center for Animals and Public Policy, developed the university's biotechnology

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 park, and built partnerships between the university and biotechnology companies. He also built up the school's programs in equine sports medicine, wildlife medicine, and ethics and values. The Franklin M. Loew Veterinary Education Center on the Grafton

Grafton, Massachusetts

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 campus is named for him.

Later career

After leaving Tufts in 1995, Loew became the dean of the Cornell University School of Veterinary Medicine. He remained at Cornell until 1997, and after a brief term as chief executive of Medical Foods, Inc., since purchased by Amerifit Brands, he was hired as president of Becker College

Becker College

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. While at Becker, Loew added four degree programs and the number of students pursuing baccalaureate

Bachelor's degree

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 degrees rose by almost 50%. He remained at Becker until his death in 2003. In 2004, he was posthumously awarded the AVMA Animal Welfare Award. In 2009, Becker College created the Franklin M. Loew Lecture Series in his honor. The Society for Veterinary Medical Ethics (SVME) posthumously awarded Loew its Robert Shomer Award in 2011.

Selected publications

• Vet in the Saddle, 1978
• Laboratory Animal Medicine. James G. Fox, Bennett J. Cohen, Franklin M. Loew, eds. Orlando, Fla: Academic Press. 1984.
• Loew, Franklin (November 1987) "The Animal Welfare Bête Noire in Veterinary Medicine", Canadian Veterinary Journal 28 689-692.
• Loew, F.M. 1994. Beyond transgenics: Ethics and values. Brit. Vet. J. 150: 3−5.
• Rowan, Andrew N., Franklin M. Loew, and Joan C. Weer. The Animal Research Controversy: Protest, Process & Public Policy: An Analysis of Strategic Issues. North Grafton, MA: Center for Animals & Public Policy, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, 1995.

See also

• Animal testing
  Animal testing
  Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals in experiments. Worldwide it is estimated that the number of vertebrate animals—from zebrafish to non-human primates—ranges from the tens of millions to more than 100 million...