Professor Rohan Lewis PhD, BSc(Hons), PGCert FTPS (Fellow of the Physiological Society)
Professor of Placental and Integrative Physiology
Rohan Lewis is Professor in Placental and Integrative Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton.
By supporting the growth of a healthy baby the placenta helps establish the foundations for lifelong health
Professor Lewis leads the Placental Research Laboratory in Southampton. His team are focused on understanding how placenta supports the growth of a healthy fetus and how placental dysfunction may impact on health across the life course.
The placental research group takes an integrative and interdisciplinary approach to understanding placental function. This involves integrating laboratory studies of transport and metabolism with 3D imaging and computational modelling. This work involves interdisciplinary collaborations with the Engineering, Maths and Physics. This seeks to both understand the mechanisms underlying specific placental functions and how these mechanisms interact to form a functioning placenta and produce a healthy baby.
We are also involved with population studies including the Southampton Women’s Survey and the Mavidos study to understand how environment affects the placental and how placental function affects health in postnatal life.
Qualifications
BSc in Biochemistry, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
BSc Hons. in Biochemistry, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1993
PhD, Department of Paediatrics, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1997
PG Cert in Academic Practice (Education), University of Southampton, UK. 2007
Appointments held
Research Associate, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge 1998-2000
Research Fellow, School of Medicine, University of Southampton 2000-2005
Lecturer in Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
Reader in Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, 2012-2017