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
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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

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
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