Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Read

Chair of 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

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

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
Incidence and 1-year outcome of periprocedural myocardial infarction following cardiac surgery: are the Universal Definition and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention criteria fit for purpose?
Jonathan Hinton, Maclyn Augustine, Lavinia Gabara, Mark Mariathas, Rick Allan, Florina Borca, Zoe Nicholas, John Ikwoube, Neil Gillett, Chun Shing Kwok, Paul Cook, Michael P.W. Grocott, Mamas Mamas & Nick Curzen, 2022, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 62(2)
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezac019
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
Low heart rate variability from 10-s electrocardiograms is associated with development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
In Young Choi, Yoosoo Chang, Geonggyu Kang, Hyun-Suk Jung, Hocheol Shin, Sarah H Wild, Christopher Byrne & Seungho Ryu, 2022, Scientific Reports, 12(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-05037-w
Type: article
The FEED1 trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of full milk feeds versus intravenous fluids with gradual feeding for preterm infants (30–33 weeks gestational age)
Eleanor J. Mitchell, Garry Meakin, Josie Anderson, Jon Dorling, Chris Gale, Rachel Haines, Charlotte Kenyan, Mark J. Johnson, William McGuire, Hema Mistry, Alan Montgomery, Sam Oddie, Reuben Ogollah, Phoebe Pallotti, Christopher Partlett, Kate F. Walker & Shalini Ojha, 2022, Trials, 23(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-021-05994-z
Type: article