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

Mapping atopic dermatitis and anti-IL-22 response signatures to Type 2-low severe neutrophilic asthma
Yusef Eamon Badi, Ana B Pavel, Stelios Pavlidis, John H Riley, Stewart Bates, Nazanin Zounemat Kermani, Richard Knowles, Johan Kolmert, Craig E Wheelock, Sally Worsley, Mohib Uddin, Kjell Alving, Per S Bakke, Annelie Behndig, Massimo Caruso, Pascal Chanez, Louise J Fleming, Stephen J Fowler, Urs Frey, Peter Howarth, Ildikó Horváth, Norbert Krug, Anke H Maitland-van der Zee, Paolo Montuschi, Graham Roberts, Marek Sanak, Dominick E Shaw, Florian Singer, Peter J Sterk, Ratko Djukanovic, Sven-Eric Dahlen, Yi-Ke Guo, Kian Fan Chung, Emma Guttman-Yassky & Ian M Adcock, 2022, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 149(1), 89-101
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.04.010
Type: article
Pharmacokinetics of adrenaline autoinjectors
Paul J Turner, Antonella Muraro & Graham Roberts, 2022, Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 52(1), 18-28
DOI: 10.1111/cea.14055
Type: review
Relationships between non-communicable disease, social isolation and frailty in community dwelling adults in later life: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study
Gregorio Bevilacqua, Karen A Jameson, Jean Zhang, Ilse Bloom, Nicholas Fuggle, Harnish Patel, Kate Ward, Cyrus Cooper & Elaine Dennison, 2022, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 34(1), 105-112
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-021-02026-3
Type: article
The feasibility and acceptability of assessing and managing sarcopenia and frailty among older people with upper limb fracture
Kinda Ibrahim, Mark Mullee, Natalie Cox, Cynthia Russell, Mark Baxter, Simon Tilley, Guiqing Lily Yao, Shihua Zhu & Helen Roberts, 2022, Age and Ageing, 51(1)
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afab252
Type: article
Wave comparisons of clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 admissions - Exploring the impact of treatment and strain dynamics
Anna Freeman, Alastair Watson, Paul O'Regan, Oskar Wysocki, Hannah Burke, Andre Freitas, Robert Livingstone, Ahilanadan Dushianthan, Michael Celinski, James Batchelor, Hang Phan, Florina Borca, Paul Fitzpatrick, Donal Landers & Tom MA Wilkinson, 2022, Journal of Clinical Virology, 146, 105031
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2021.105031
Type: article
A pas de deux of osteoporosis and sarcopenia: osteosarcopenia
Faidra Laskou, Harnish Patel, Cyrus Cooper & Elaine Dennison, 2022, Climacteric, 25(1), 88–95
DOI: 10.1080/13697137.2021.1951204
Type: review
Neisseria lactamica controlled human infection model
Adam P. Dale, Diane F. Gbesemete, Robert C. Read & Jay R. Laver, 2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1900-1_21
Type: bookChapter