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…
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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…
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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

Ingestion, immunity, and infection: nutrition and viral respiratory tract infections
Coen Govers, Philip Calder, Huub FJ Savelkoul, Ruud Albers & RJ Joost van Neerven, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology, 13
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.841532
Type: review
Preface. Enhanced recovery after surgery and perioperative medicine driving value-based surgical care
Michael Scott, Anton Krige & Michael P W Grocott, 2022, Anesthesiology Clinics, 40(1), xv-xvi
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2021.11.013
Type: article
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