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…
Connect with Cyrus

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

Association of differential mast cell activation with granulocytic inflammation in severe asthma
Angelica Tiotiu, Yusef Badi, Nazanin Zounemat Kermani, Marek Sanak, Johan Kolmert, Craig E. Wheelock, Philip M. Hansbro, Sven Erik Dahlén, Peter J. Sterk, Ratko Djukanovic, Yike Guo, Sharon Mumby, Ian M. Adcock, Kian Fan Chung, Uruj Hoda, Christos Rossios, Elisabeth Bel, Navin Rao, David Myles, Chris Compton, Marleen Van Geest, Peter Howarth, Graham Roberts, Diane Lefaudeux, Bertrand De Meulder, Aruna T. Bansal, Richard Knowles, Damijn Erzen, Scott Wagers, Norbert Krug, Tim Higenbottam, John Matthews, Veit Erpenbeek, Leon Carayannopoulos, Amanda Roberts, David Supple, Pim deBoer, Massimo Caruso, Pascal Chanez, Ildikó Horváth, Jacek Musial & Thomas Sandström, 2022, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 205(4), 397-411
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202102-0355OC
Type: article
Biomarker identification using dynamic time warping analysis: a longitudinal cohort study of patients with COVID-19 in a UK tertiary hospital
Hannah Burke, Anna Freeman, Paul O'Regan, Oskar Wysocki, Andre Freitas, Ahilanandan Dushianthan, Michael Celinski, James Batchelor, Hang Phan, Florina Borca, Natasha Sheard, Sarah Williams, Alastair Watson, Paul Fitzpatrick, Dónal Landers & Tom Wilkinson, 2022, BMJ Open, 12(2)
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050331
Type: article
Rapid phospholipid turnover after surfactant nebulization in severe COVID- 19 infection: a randomized clinical trial
Anthony Postle, Howard Clark, Jim Fink, Jens Madsen, Grielof Koster, Madhuriben Panchal, Ratko Djukanovic, David Brealey, Michael Grocott & Ahilanandan Dushianthan, 2022, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 205(4), 471-473
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202110-2279LE
Type: article
How do we engage people in testing for COVID-19? A rapid qualitative evaluation of a testing programme in schools, GP surgeries and a university
Daniella Watson, Natalia Laverty baralle, Jawahr, Hamad Alagil, Krithika Anil, Sandy Ciccognani, Rachel Dewar-Haggart, Sarah Fearn, Julia Groot, Kathryn Knowles, Claire Meagher, Carmel McGrath, Sarah Muir, Joanna Musgrove, Kate Glyn-Owen, Kathryn Woods-Townsend, Andrew Mortimore, Paul Roderick, Janis Baird, Hazel Inskip, Keith Godfrey & Mary Barker, 2022, BMC Public Health, 22(1), 305
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-12657-4
Type: article
Validation and further insight into the International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR) eosinophil gradient algorithm in the Wessex AsThma CoHort of difficult asthma (WATCH) using historical blood eosinophil counts and induced sputum
Clair Barber, Adnan Azim, Colin Newell, Aref Kyyaly, Hitasha Rupani, Hans Michael Haitchi, Peter Howarth & Ramesh Kurukulaaratchy, 2022, Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 52(6), 792-796
DOI: 10.1111/cea.14109
Type: letterEditorial
International links between Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine serotype 4 sequence type (ST) 801 in Northern European shipyard outbreaks of invasive pneumococcal disease
R A Gladstone, L Siira, O B Brynildsrud, D F Vestrheim, P Turner, S C Clarke, S Srifuengfung, R Ford, D Lehmann, E Egorova, E Voropaeva, G Haraldsson, K G Kristinsson, L McGee, R F Breiman, S D Bentley, C L Sheppard, N K Fry, J Corander, M Toropainen & A Steens, 2022, Vaccine, 40(7), 1054-1060
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.10.046
Type: article
Casirivimab and imdevimab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
Muhammad S. Ahmed, Dinesh Bagmane, Jazz Bartholomew, Tom Brown, Michael Carter, Katrina Cathie, Saul N. Faust, Mae Felongco, Mark Johnson & Christine E. Jones, 2022, The Lancet, 399(10325), 665-676
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00163-5
Type: article