Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Read

Chair in 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

Emeritus Professor Cyrus Cooper

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 of 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 (KEE) & Professor of Epidemiology & Human Development
Connect with Keith

Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Hasan Arshad

Professor of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Connect with Hasan

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

Professor Graham Roberts

Professor of Paediatric Allergy & Resp. Medicine
Connect with Graham

Email: g.c.roberts@soton.ac.uk

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

Professor of Paediatric Immunity & Infection
Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Modelling wheezing spells identifies phenotypes with different outcomes and genetic associates
Sadia Haider, Raquel Granell, John Curtin, Sara Fontanella, Alex Cucco, Stephen Turner, Angela Simpson, Graham Roberts, Clare S Murray, John W Holloway, Graham Devereux, Paul Cullinan, Syed Hasan Arshad & Adnan Custovic, 2022, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 205(8), 883-893
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202108-1821OC
Type: article
Estimating the effects of lockdown timing on COVID-19 cases and deaths in England: a counterfactual modelling study
Kellyn F. Arnold, Mark S. Gilthorpe, Nisreen Alwan, Alison J. Heppenstall, Georgia D. Tomova, Martin McKee & Peter W.G. Tennant, 2022, PLoS ONE, 17(4 April)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263432
Type: article
Feasibility and acceptability of daily testing at school as an alternative to self-isolation following close contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19: A qualitative analysis
Sarah Denford, Lauren Towler, Behiye Ali, Georgia Treneman-Evans, Rachael Bloomer, T. Peto, Bernadette Young & Lucy Yardley, 2022, BMC Public Health, 22(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13204-x
Type: article
"It is really just brilliant to get credits for something that is so important to you!" Skills for Life: University students' perceptions of a planned dietary life skills course
Ida Ulrikke Valand, Nina C Øverby, Sofia Strömmer, Mary Barker, Camilla Bjornes, Julie Nordli, Line Pettersen, Tormod Bjørkkjær, Frøydis N Vik, Charlotte Kiland & Elisabet R Hillesund, 2022, PLoS ONE, 17(4 April)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260890
Type: article
Micronutrients to support vaccine immunogenicity and efficacy
Philip Calder, Mette M. Berger, Adrian F. Gombart, Grace A. McComsey, Adrian R. Martineau & Manfred Eggersdorfer, 2022, Vaccines, 10(4)
DOI: 10.3390/vaccines10040568
Type: letterEditorial
UK clinical guideline for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis
Celia L. Gregson, David J. Armstrong, Jean Bowden, Cyrus Cooper, John Edwards, Neil J L. Gittoes, Nicholas Harvey, John A. Kanis, Sarah Leyland, Rebecca Low, Eugene McCloskey, Katie Moss , Jane Parker, Zoe Paskins, Kenneth E.S. Poole, David M. Reid, Mike Stone, Julia Thomson, Nic Vine & Juliet Compston, 2022, Archives of Osteoporosis, 17(1)
DOI: 10.1007/s11657-022-01115-8
Type: article
An international survey on nasal nitric oxide measurement practices for the diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia
2022, ERJ Open Research, 8(2)
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00708-2021
Type: article