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
Connect with Philip

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
Connect with Keith

Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Hasan Arshad

Professor of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Connect with Hasan

Email: S.H.Arshad@soton.ac.uk

Professor Graham Roberts

Professor of Paediatric Allergy & Resp. Medicine
Connect with Graham

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

Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of virtual group exercise for older adults delivered by trained volunteers: the ImPACt study protocol
Stephen Eu Ruen Lim, Samantha Meredith, Samantha Agnew, Esther Clift, Kinda Ibrahim & Helen Roberts, 2022, BMJ Open, 12(2)
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052631
Type: article
Foods to deliver immune-supporting nutrients
Philip Calder, 2022, Current Opinion in Food Science, 43, 136-145
DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2021.12.006
Type: review
Physical activity and sedentary behaviours during pregnancy are associated with neonatal size at birth
A. Prioreschi, S. V. Wrottesley & S. A. Norris, 2022, SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health, 15(4), 201-207
DOI: 10.7196/SAJCH.2021.v15i4.1827
Type: article
Safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine (NVX-CoV2373) co-administered with seasonal influenza vaccines: an exploratory substudy of a randomised, observer-blinded, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial
Seth Toback, Eva Galiza, Catherine Cosgrove, James Galloway, Anna L. Goodman, Pauline A. Swift, Sankarasubramanian Rajaram, Alison Graves-Jones, Jonathan Edelman, Fiona Burns, Angela M. Minassian, Iksung Cho, Lakshmi Kumar, Joyce S. Plested, E. Joy Rivers, Andreana Robertson, Filip Dubovsky, Greg Glenn, Paul T. Heath & Saul N. Faust, 2022, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 10(2), 167-179
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00409-4
Type: article
Structured transition is associated with improved outcomes in diabetes
Matthew J. Harmer, Lucy H. Everitt, Lillie Parker, Nikki Davis, Gary Connett & Arvind Nagra, 2022, Practical Diabetes, 39(1), 18-22a
DOI: 10.1002/pdi.2375
Type: article
Associations of osteoporosis and sarcopenia with frailty and multimorbidity among participants of the Hertfordshire Cohort Study
Faidra Laskou, Nicholas Fuggle, Harnish Patel, Karen A Jameson, Cyrus Cooper & Elaine Dennison, 2022, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 13(1), 220-229
DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.12870
Type: article
Learning about COVID-19 across borders
S. Cai, T. Zhang, C. Robin, C. Sawyer, W. Rice, L. E. Smith, R. Amlot, G.J. Rubin, L. Yardley, M. Hickman, I. Oliver & H. Lambert, 2022, Public Health, 203, 9-14
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2021.11.015
Type: article