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…
Connect with Ratko

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

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
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
"Too high, too low"
Paul J Turner, Joseph L Baumert, Kirsten Beyer, Simon Brooke-Taylor, Pasquale Comberiati, René W R Crevel, Jennifer D Gerdts, M Hazel Gowland, Geert F Houben, Jonathan O'B Hourihane, George N Konstantinou, Sébastien La Vieille, Beatriz Moya, Antonella Muraro, E N Clare Mills, Nandinee Patel, Marcia Podestà, Bert Popping, Imke Reese, Graham Roberts, Maria Said, Alexandra F Santos, Sabine Schnadt, Steve L Taylor, Berber Vlieg-Boerstra & Benjamin C Remington, 2021, Allergy
DOI: 10.1111/all.15202
Type: article
Immune-endocrine biomarkers associated with mental health: a 9-year longitudinal investigation from the Hertfordshire Ageing Study
Ruihua Hou, Leo Westbury, Nicholas Fuggle, Cyrus Cooper & Elaine Dennison, 2021, Brain, Behavior and Immunity
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2021.12.022
Type: article
Cardiac magnetic resonance radiomics reveal differential impact of sex, age, and vascular risk factors on cardiac structure and myocardial tissue
Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Akshay Jaggi, Polyxeni Gkontra, Celeste McCracken, Nay Aung, Patricia B Munroe, Stefan Neubauer, Nicholas C Harvey, Karim Lekadir & Steffen E Petersen, 2021, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 8, 763361
DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.763361
Type: article