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
Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Duodenal-jejunal bypass liner for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity
Aruchuna Ruban, Alexander D Miras, Michael A Glaysher, Anthony P Goldstone, Christina G Prechtl, Nicholas Johnson, Navpreet Chhina, Werd Al-Najim, Madhawi Aldhwayan, Natalia Klimowska-Nassar, Claire Smith, Joanne Lord, Jia V Li, Lilliam Flores, Moaz Al-Lababidi, Georgios K Dimitriadis, Mayank Patel, Michael Moore, Harvinder Chahal, Ahmed R Ahmed, Jonathan Cousins, Ghadah Aldubaikhi, Ben Glover, Emanuela Falaschetti, Hutan Ashrafian, Carel W le Roux, Ara Darzi, James P Byrne & Julian P Teare, 2022, Annals of Surgery, 275(3), 440-447
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004980
Type: article
The effect of wasting and stunting during severe acute malnutrition in infancy on insulin sensitivity and insulin clearance in adult life
Debbie S. Thompson, Patrice M. Francis-Emmanuel, Alan T. Barnett, Clive Osmond, Mark Hanson, Christopher Byrne, Peter D. Gluckman, Terrence E. Forrester & Michael S. Boyne, 2022, Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 13(6), 750-756
DOI: 10.1017/S2040174422000034
Type: article
Among simple non-invasive scores, Pro-C3 and ADAPT best exclude advanced fibrosis in Asian patients with MAFLD
Liang-Jie Tang Tang, Hong-Lei Ma, Mohammed Eslam, Grace Lai-Hung Wong, Pei-Wu Zhu, Sui-Dan Chen, Diana Julie Leeming, Morten Karsdal, Gang Li, Ou-Yang Huang, Howard Ho-Wai Leung , Yu-Jie Zhou, Qian Feng, Pei Jiang, Li-Mei Gao, Christopher Byrne, Giovanni Targher, Jacob George, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong & Ming-Hua Zheng, 2022, Metabolism, 128
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2021.154958
Type: article
Delivering brief physical activity interventions in primary care: A systematic review
2022, British Journal of General Practice, 72(716), E209-E216
DOI: 10.3399/BJGP.2021.0312
Type: review
Epigenetic regulation of bone mass
Elizabeth Curtis, Nicholas Fuggle, Cyrus Cooper & Nicholas Harvey, 2022, Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 36(2)
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2021.101612
Type: article
Experiences of pregnant women and healthcare professionals of participating in a digital antenatal CMV education intervention
Amy Montague, Tushna Vandrevala, Anna Calvert, L. Ling Yeh, Caroline Star, Asma Khalil, Paul Griffiths, Paul T. Heath & Christine E. Jones, 2022, Midwifery, 106
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2022.103249
Type: article
From theory to practice: an international approach to establishing prehabilitation programmes
June F. Davis, Stefan J. Van Rooijen, Chloe Grimmett, Malcom A. West, Anna M. Campbell, Rashami Awasthi, Gerrit D. Slooter, Michael P. Grocott, Franco Carli & Sandy Jack, 2022, Current Anesthesiology , 12(1), 129-137
DOI: 10.1007/s40140-022-00516-2
Type: article