Our researchers - Professor Claire E. Lewis

After completing her DPhil (PhD) in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics in Oxford in 1986, Claire held two postdoctoral positions and a Lectureship in the Medical School there before moving to join the Medical School in Sheffield in 1996. She specialises in inflammatory diseases and heads a team of pre and postdoctoral scientists studying myeloid cells like macrophages and their precursors, monocytes.  In 1996, Oxford University awarded her a DSc degree for her contribution to the field of inflammation research.