Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Read

Chair of Infectious Diseases
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Email: R.C.Read@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Chris Byrne

Professor of Endocrinol & Met
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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…
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Email: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Philip Calder

Professor In 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…
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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
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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

Children, intersectionality, and COVID-19
Katy Dineen, Bengt Autzen & Nisreen Alwan, 2022, The Lancet, 399(10327), 799
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00174-X
Type: article
DEPEND study protocol: early detection of patients with pancreatic cancer - a pilot study to evaluate the utility of faecal elastase-1 and 13C-mixed triglyceride breath test as screening tools in high-risk individuals
Paul Remi Afolabi, Declan McDonnell, Christopher D Byrne, Sam Wilding, Victoria Goss, Jocelyn Walters & Zaed Z Hamady, 2022, BMJ Open, 12(2)
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057271
Type: article
Severe COVID‐19 pneumonia in an intensive care setting and comparisons with historic severe viral pneumonia due to other viruses
Kiran Dadhwal, Rosalind Stonham, Hannah Breen, Stephen Poole, Kordo Saeed & Ahilanandan Dushianthan, 2022, The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 16(4), 301-308
DOI: 10.1111/crj.13482
Type: article
Early life inter-kingdom interactions shape the immunological environment of the airways
Céline Pattaroni, Matthew Macowan, Roxanne Chatzis, Carmel Daunt, Adnan Custovic, Michael D Shields, Ultan F Power, Jonathan Grigg, Graham Roberts, Peter Ghazal, Jürgen Schwarze, Mindy Gore, Steve Turner, Andrew Bush, Sejal Saglani, Clare M Lloyd & Benjamin J Marsland, 2022, Microbiome, 10(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-021-01201-y
Type: article
Pseudohypoxic HIF pathway activation dysregulates collagen structure-function in human lung fibrosis
Christopher J. Brereton, Liudi Yao, Elizabeth R. Davies, Yilu Zhou, Milica Vukmirovic, Joseph A. Bell, Siyuan Wang, Robert A. Ridley, Lareb S.N. Dean, Orestis G. Andriotis, Franco Conforti, Lennart Brewitz, Soran Mohammed, Timothy Wallis, Ali Tavassoli, Rob M. Ewing, Aiman Alzetani, Benjamin G. Marshall, Sophie V. Fletcher, Philipp J. Thurner, Aurelie Fabre, Naftali Kaminski, Luca Richeldi, Atul Bhaskar, Christopher J. Schofield, Matthew Loxham, Donna E. Davies, Yihua Wang & Mark G. Jones, 2022, eLife, 11
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.69348
Type: article
Young people's experiences of COVID-19 messaging at the start of the UK lockdown
Sofia T Strömmer, Divya Sivaramakrishnan, Sarah C Shaw, Kathleen Morrison, Millie Barrett, Jillian Manner, Sarah Jenner, Tom Hughes, Polly Hardy-Johnson, Marike Andreas, Donna Lovelock, Sorna Paramananthan, Lisa Bagust, Audrey Buelo, Kathryn Woods-Townsend, Rochelle Ann Burgess, Nancy Kanu, Malik Gul, Tanya Matthews, Amina Smith-Gul, Mary Barker & Ruth Jepson, 2022, BMC Public Health, 22(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-12755-3
Type: article
Plasma proteins elevated in severe asthma despite oral steroid use and unrelated to Type-2 inflammation
Maria Sparreman Mikus, Johan Kolmert, Lars I Andersson, Jörgen Östling, Richard G Knowles, Cristina Gómez, Magnus Ericsson, John-Olof Thörngren, Payam Emami Khoonsari, Barbro Dahlén, Maciej Kupczyk, Bertrand De Meulder, Charles Auffray, Per S Bakke, Bianca Beghe, Elisabeth H Bel, Massimo Caruso, Pascal Chanez, Bo Chawes, Stephen J Fowler, Mina Gaga, Thomas Geiser, Mark Gjomarkaj, Ildikó Horváth, Peter H Howarth, Sebastian L Johnston, Guy Joos, Norbert Krug, Paolo Montuschi, Jacek Musial, Ewa Niżankowska-Mogilnicka, Henric K Olsson, Alberto Papi, Klaus F Rabe, Thomas Sandström, Dominick E Shaw, Nikolaos M Siafakas, Mathias Uhlén, John H Riley, Stewart Bates, Roelinde J M Middelveld, Craig E Wheelock, Kian Fan Chung, Ian M Adcock, Peter J Sterk, Ratko Djukanovic, Peter Nilsson, Sven-Erik Dahlén & Anna James, 2022, The European respiratory journal, 59(2)
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00142-2021
Type: article