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
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Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

J-shaped relationship between serum zinc levels and the severity of hepatic necro-inflammation in patients with MAFLD
Sui-Dan Chen, Huai Zhang, Rafael S. Rios, Yang-Yang Li, Pei-Wu Zhu, Yi Jin, Hong-Lei Ma, Liang-Jie Tang, Gang Li, Ou-Yang Huang, Kenneth I. Zheng, Christopher Byrne, Giovanni Targher & Ming-Hua Zheng, 2022, Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases, 32(5), 1259-1265
DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2022.01.035
Type: article
Maternal weight and gestational diabetes impacts on child health
Kathryn V. Dalrymple, Sarah El-Heis & Keith Godfrey, 2022, Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care, 25(3), 203-208
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0000000000000826
Type: review
Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae-Moraxella catarrhalis vaccine for the prevention of exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled, observer-blinded, proof-of-concept, phase 2b trial
Stefan Andreas, Marco Testa, Laurent Boyer, Guy Brusselle, Wim Janssens, Edward Kerwin, Alberto Papi, Bonavuth Pek, Luis Puente-Maestu, Dinesh Saralaya, Henrik Watz, Tom M.A. Wilkinson, Daniela Casula, Gennaro Di Maro, Maria Lattanzi, Luca Moraschini, Sonia Schoonbroodt, Annaelisa Tasciotti, Ashwani K Arora & François Maltais, 2022, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 10(5), 435-446
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00502-6
Type: article
Time for revival of bone biopsy with histomorphometric analysis in chronic kidney disease (CKD): moving from skepticism to pragmatism.
Maria Fusaro, Giulia Vanessa Re Sarto, Maurizio Gallieni, Laura Cosmai, Pieregiorgio Messa, Maurizio Rossini, Iacopo Chiodini, Mario Plebani, Pieter Evenepoel, Nicholas Harvey, S. Ferrari, Jorge B Cannata-Andía, Andrea  Trombetti, Maria Luisa Brandi, Markus Ketteler, Thomas L. Nickolas, John Cunningham, Syazrah Salam, Carlo Della Rocca, Aldo Scarpa, Salvatore Minisola, Fabio Malberti, Filomena Cetani, Mario Cozzolino, Sandro Mazzaferro, Luigi Morrone, Giovanni Tripepi, Martina Zaninotto, Maria Cristina Mereu, Maura Ravera, Giuseppe Cianciolo, Gaetano La Manna, Andrea Aghi, Sandro Giannini & Luca Dalle Carbonare, 2022, Nutrients, 14(9)
DOI: 10.3390/nu14091742
Type: review
Fasting ketonuria is inversely associated with coronary artery calcification in non-diabetic individuals
In Young Cho, Yoosoo Chang, Eunju Sung, Yejin Kim, Jae-Heon Kang, Hocheol Shin, Sarah H. Wild, Christopher Byrne & Seungho Ryu, 2022, Atherosclerosis, 348, 1 - 7
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2022.03.018
Type: article
Measuring early life adversity: a dimensional approach
Ilana S. Berman, Katie A. McLaughlin, Nim Tottenham, Keith Godfrey, Teresa Seeman, Eric Loucks, Stephen Suomi, Andrea Danese & Margaret A. Sheridan, 2022, Development and Psychopathology, 34(2), 499-511
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579421001826
Type: article
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a multi-system disease influenced by ageing and sex, and affected by adipose tissue and intestinal function
Josh Bilson, Jaswinder K. Sethi & Christopher Byrne, 2022, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 81(2), 146-161
DOI: 10.1017/S0029665121003815
Type: review