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

A digital intervention for respiratory tract infections (Internet Dr): process evaluation to understand how to support self-care for minor ailments
Sascha Miller, Lucy Yardley, Peter W.F. Smith, Mark Weal, Alexander MC Milton, Beth Stuart, Paul Little & Leanne Morrison, 2022, JMIR Formative Research , 6(1)
DOI: 10.2196/24239
Type: article
Risk of heart failure in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. JACC Review Topic of the Week.
Alessandro Mantovani, Christopher Byrne, Giovanni Benfari, Stefano Bonapace, Tracey G. Simon & Giovanni Targher, 2022, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 79(2), 180-191
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.11.007
Type: article
Semi-quantitative detection of inflammatory biomarkers using a laser-patterned multiplexed lateral flow device
Alice H. Iles, Peijun J.W. He, Ioannis N. Katis, Panagiotis P. Galanis, Anto J.U.K. John, Paul Elkington, Robert W. Eason & Collin L. Sones, 2022, Talanta, 237, 1-8
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122944
Type: article
A multi-omics approach to delineate sputum microbiome-associated asthma inflammatory phenotypes
Mahmoud I Abdel-Aziz, Susanne J H Vijverberg, Anne H Neerincx, Paul Brinkman, Ariane H Wagener, John H Riley, Ana R Sousa, Stewart Bates, Scott S Wagers, Bertrand De Meulder, Charles Auffray, Åsa M Wheelock, Aruna T Bansal, Massimo Caruso, Pascal Chanez, Mohib Uddin, Julie Corfield, Ildiko Horvath, Norbert Krug, Jacek Musial, Kai Sun, Dominick E Shaw, Thomas Sandström, Paolo Montuschi, Stephen J Fowler, René Lutter, Ratko Djukanovic, Peter Howarth, Paul Skipp, Marek Sanak, Ian M Adcock, Kian Fan Chung, Peter J Sterk, Aletta D Kraneveld & Anke H Maitland-van der Zee, 2022, The European respiratory journal, 59(1)
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02603-2021
Type: article
Decrease in sleep duration and poor sleep quality over time is associated with an increased risk of incident non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Yoo Jin Um, Yoosoo Chang , Hyun-Suk Jung, In Young Cho, Jun Ho Shin, Hocheol Shin, Sarah H. Wild, Christopher Byrne & Seungho Ryu, 2022, Journal of Personalized Medicine, 12(1)
DOI: 10.3390/jpm12010092
Type: article
Efficacy of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor agonists, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists or sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors for treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review
Alessandro Mantovani, Christopher Byrne & Giovanni Targher, 2022, The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 7(4), 367-378
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-1253(21)00261-2
Type: review
Point-of-care testing in Paediatric settings in the UK and Ireland: a cross-sectional study
Meenu Pandey, Mark D Lyttle, Katrina Cathie, Alasdair Munro, Thomas Waterfield & Damian Roland, 2022, BMC Emergency Medicine, 22(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12873-021-00556-7
Type: article