Professor Rohan Lewis

I teach physiology to medical students, primarily for the graduate entry BM4 programme where I teach across the curriculum but also on the BM5 programme where I teach renal and placental physiology and run tutorials.

I also contribute to teaching placental biology for BIOL 3044 and for the MRes Evolution. 

I have previously undertaken roles as semester lead and assessment lead on the BM4 program and have an interest in medical assessment. 

Rohan Lewis is Professor in Placental and Integrative Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton.

Professor Lewis leads the Placental Research Laboratory in Southampton. His team are focused on understanding how the placenta supports the growth of a healthy fetus and how placental dysfunction may impact 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 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 the environment affects the placental and how placental function affects health in postnatal life.

Prizes

• Fellow of The Physiological Society (2017)