Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Read

Chair of Infectious Diseases
Connect with Robert

Email: R.C.Read@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Chris Byrne

Professor of Endocrinol & Met
Connect with Chris

Email: C.D.Byrne@soton.ac.uk

Professor Cyrus Cooper

Prof Rheumatology Clinical Epidemiology
Research interests
  • Key research contributions have been:
  • discovery of the developmental influences which contribute to the risk of osteoporosis and hi…
  • demonstration that maternal vitamin D insufficiency is associated with sub-optimal bone miner…
Connect with Cyrus

Email: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Philip Calder

Professor In Nutritional Immunology
Connect with Philip

Email: P.C.Calder@soton.ac.uk

Professor Ratko Djukanovic

Professor of Medicine
Research interests
  • Professor Djukanovic has a lifelong interest in asthma, especially its severe forms. where hi…
  • Underlying mechanisms of asthma: Professor Djukanovic has conducted pioneer studies into the …
  • Stratification of asthma into clinical phenotypes and mechanism-based endotypes: Professor Dj…
Connect with Ratko

Email: rd1@soton.ac.uk

Professor Keith Godfrey

Associate Dean Enterprise
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Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Hasan Arshad

Prof in Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Connect with Hasan

Email: S.H.Arshad@soton.ac.uk

Dr Stephen Wootton PhD FAfN OBE

Associate Professor
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Email: S.A.Wootton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Graham Roberts

Prof in Paed. Allergy & Resp. Medicine
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Email: g.c.roberts@soton.ac.uk

Professor Saul Faust MBBS, PhD, FRCPCH, FFPM(Hon), FHEA, OBE

Professor Paediatric Immunology & Infect
Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

On the legal aspects of responsible AI: adaptive change, human oversight, and societal outcomes
Daria Onitiu, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Adriane Chapman, Enrico Gerding, Stuart E. Middleton & Jennifer Williams, 2023
Type: conference
Doxycycline for the prevention of progression of COVID-19 to severe disease requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission: A randomized, controlled, open-label, parallel group trial (DOXPREVENT.ICU)
Raja Dhar, John Kirkpatrick, Laura Gilbert, Arjun Khanna, Mahavir Madhavdas Modi, Rakesh K Chawla, Sonia Dalal, Venkata Nagarjuna Maturu, Marcel Stern, Oliver T Keppler, Ratko Djukanovic & Stephan D Gadola, 2023, PLoS ONE, 18(1), e0280745
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280745
Type: article
Optimising growth in very preterm infants: reviewing the evidence
Aneurin Young, R. Mark Beattie & Mark John Johnson, 2023, Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 108(1), F2-F9
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-322892
Type: review
Does antenatal cholecalciferol supplementation affect the mode or timing of delivery? Post hoc analyses of the MAVIDOS randomised controlled trial
Rebecca J Moon, Stefania D’angelo, Sarah R Crozier, Elizabeth M Curtis, Michelle Fernandes, Alexandra J Kermack, Justin H Davies, Keith M Godfrey, Nicholas J Bishop, Stephen H Kennedy, Ann Prentice, Inez Schoenmakers, Robert Fraser, Saurabh V Gandhi, Hazel M Inskip, Muhammad Kassim Javaid, Aris T Papageorghiou, Cyrus Cooper & Nicholas C Harvey, 2022, Journal of Public Health
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdac160
Type: article
Phase 1/2a Safety and Immunogenicity of an Adenovirus 26 Vector Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine Encoding Prefusion F in Adults 18–50 Years and RSV-Seropositive Children 12–24 Months
Arabella S.V. Stuart, Miia Virta, Kristi Williams, Ilkka Seppa, Robyn Hartvickson, Melanie Greenland, Edmund Omoruyi, Arangassery Rosemary Bastian, Wouter Haazen, Nadine Salisch, Efi Gymnopoulou, Benoit Callendret, Saul N Faust, Matthew D Snape & Esther Heijnen, 2022, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 227(1), 71-82
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiac407
Type: article
Implementing two-stage consent pathway in neonatal trials
Eleanor Mitchell, Sam J. Oddie, Jon Dorling, Chris Gale, Mark John Johnson, William McGuire & Shalini Ojha, 2022, Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 108(1), F79-F82
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-322960
Type: article
Comparative genomic analysis of clinical Acinetobacter nosocomialis isolates from Terengganu, Malaysia led to the discovery of a novel tetracycline-resistant plasmid
Farahiyah Mohd Rani, Soo Sum Lean, Nor Iza A Rahman, Salwani Ismail, Ahmed Ghazi Alattraqchi, Malik Amonov, David W Cleary, Stuart C Clarke & Chew Chieng Yeo, 2022, Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, 31(12), 104-109
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2022.08.019
Type: article