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
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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
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Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Hasan Arshad

Professor of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
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Email: S.H.Arshad@soton.ac.uk

Professor Graham Roberts

Professor of Paediatric 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 of Paediatric Immunity & Infection
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Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Preterm birth during the COVID‐19 pandemic
LV Marino, N Collaço, MJ Johnson & AS Darlington, 2022, Acta Paediatrica, 111(4), 772-773
DOI: 10.1111/apa.16229
Type: article
Reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification has high accuracy for detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in saliva and nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal swabs from asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals
Stephen P. Kidd, Daniel Burns, Bryony Armson, Andrew D. Beggs, Emma L.A. Howson, Anthony Williams, Gemma Snell, Emma L. Wise, Alice Goring, Zoe Vincent-Mistiaen, Seden Grippon, Jason Sawyer, Claire Cassar, David Cross, Thomas Lewis, Scott M Reid, Samantha Rivers, Joe James, Paul Skinner, Ashley Banyard, Kerrie Davies, Anetta Ptasinska, Celina Whalley, Jack Ferguson, Claire Bryer, Charlie Poxon, Andrew Bosworth, Michael Kidd, Alex Richter, Jane Burton, Hannah Love, Sarah Fouch, Claire Tillyer, Amy Sowood, Helen Patrick, Nathan Moore, Michael Andreou, Nick Morant, Rebecca Houghton, Joe Parker, Joanne Slater-Jefferies, Ian Brown, Cosima Gretton, Zandra Deans, Deborah Porter, Nicholas J. Cortes, Angela Douglas, Sue L. Hill, Keith M. Godfrey & Veronica L. Fowler, 2022, Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 24(4), 320-336
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2021.12.007
Type: article
Routine molecular point-of-care testing for SARS-CoV-2 reduces hospital-acquired COVID-19
Robert Livingstone, Hlaing Lin, Nathan Brendish, Stephen Poole, Florina Borca, Alex Tanner, Trevor Smith , Matt Stammers & Tristan Clark, 2022, Journal of Infection, 84(4), 558-565
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2022.01.034
Type: article
Serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D and the risk of low muscle mass in young and middle-aged Korean adults
Yejin Kim, Yoosoo Chang, Seungho Ryu, In Young Cho, Min-Jung Kwon, Sarah H Wild & Christopher Byrne, 2022, European journal of endocrinology, 186(4), 477-487
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-21-1229
Type: article
The Influence of bariatric (metabolic) surgery on blood polyunsaturated fatty acids: A systematic review
Aphra-Lily O. Middleton, James P. Byrne & Philip Calder, 2022, Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, 48, 121-140
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2022.02.001
Type: article
Potential blood DNA methylation biomarker genes for diagnosis of liver fibrosis in patients with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
QF Sun, LJ Tang, MJ Wang , PW Zhu, YY Li, HL Ma, OY Huang, L Hong, G Li, Christopher Byrne, G Targher, WY Liu, Y Lu, JG Ding & MH Zheng, 2022, Frontiers in Medicine, 9
DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.864570
Type: article
Associations between maternal distress during early life periods and offspring respiratory infections and allergic outcomes
Hui Xing Lau, Michelle Zhi Ling Kee, Qai Ven Yap, Elizabeth Huiwen Tham, Yiong Huak Chan, Anne Eng Neo Goh, Oon Hoe Teoh, Johan G. Eriksson, Keith Godfrey, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap-Seng Chong, Jerry KY Chan, Hugo van Bever, Bee Wah Lee, Lynette Pei-Chi Shek , Michael J. Meaney & Evelyn Xiu-Ling Loo, 2022, Frontiers in Pediatrics, 10
DOI: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35433563/
Type: article