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
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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…
Connect with Ratko

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
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

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease-related risk of cardiovascular disease and other cardiac complications
Christopher Byrne & Giovanni Targher, 2022, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 24(S2), 28-43
DOI: 10.1111/dom.14484
Type: article
Safety and immunogenicity of a self-amplifying RNA vaccine against COVID-19: COVAC1, a phase I, dose-ranging trial
Katrina M Pollock, Hannah M Cheeseman, Alexander J Szubert, Vincenzo Libri, Marta Boffito, David Owen, Henry Bern, Jessica O'Hara, Leon R McFarlane, Nana-Marie Lemm, Paul F McKay, Tommy Rampling, Yee Ting N Yim, Ana Milinkovic, Cherry Kingsley, Tom Cole, Susanne Fagerbrink, Marites Aban, Maniola Tanaka, Savviz Mehdipour, Alexander Robbins, William Budd, Saul N Faust, Hana Hassanin, Catherine A Cosgrove, Alan Winston, Sarah Fidler, David T Dunn, Sheena McCormack & Robin J Shattock, 2022, EClinicalMedicine, 44
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101262
Type: article
Osteoporosis in Europe: a compendium of country-specific reports
Carl Willers, Nicholas Norton, Nicholas C Harvey, Trolle Jacobson, Helena Johansson, Mattias Lorentzon, Eugene V McCloskey, Fredrik Borgström & John A Kanis, 2022, Archives of Osteoporosis, 17(1), 23
DOI: 10.1007/s11657-021-00969-8
Type: article
Biomarker-guided duration of Antibiotic Treatment in Children Hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection (BATCH): protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Cherry-Ann Waldron, Emma Thomas-Jones, Jolanta Bernatoniene, Lucy Brookes-Howell, Saul N Faust, Debbie Harris, Lucy Hinds, Kerenza Hood, Chao Huang, Céu Mateus, Philip Pallmann, Sanjay Patel, Stéphane Paulus, Matthew Peak, Colin Powell, Jennifer Preston & Enitan D Carrol, 2022, BMJ Open, 12(1)
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047490
Type: article
Understanding influences on physical activity participation by older adults: a qualitative study of community-dwelling older adults from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study, UK.
Jean Zhang, Ilse Bloom, Elaine Dennison, Kate Ward, Sian M Robinson, Mary Barker, Cyrus Cooper & Wendy Lawrence, 2022, PLoS ONE, 17(1 1)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263050
Type: article
Transcription shifts in gut bacteria shared between mothers and their infants
T. Vatanen, Olga Sakwinska, B. Wilson, S. Combremont, Wayne Cutfield, Shiao-Yng Chan, Keith Godfrey & J M O'Sullivan, 2022, Scientific Reports, 12(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-04848-1
Type: article
Immunopeptidomic analysis of influenza A virus infected human tissues identifies internal proteins as a rich source of HLA ligands
Benjamin Nicholas, Alistair Bailey, Karl J. Staples, Thomas Wilkinson, Timothy Elliott & Paul Skipp, 2022, PLOS Pathogens, 18(1)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009894
Type: article