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
Connect with Philip

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
Connect with Keith

Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Hasan Arshad

Prof in Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Connect with Hasan

Email: S.H.Arshad@soton.ac.uk

Dr Stephen Wootton PhD FAfN OBE

Associate Professor
Connect with Stephen

Email: S.A.Wootton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Graham Roberts

Prof in Paed. Allergy & Resp. Medicine
Connect with Graham

Email: g.c.roberts@soton.ac.uk

Professor Saul Faust MBBS, PhD, FRCPCH, FFPM(Hon), FHEA, OBE

Professor Paediatric Immunology & Infect
Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Vaccination in pregnancy against pertussis and seasonal influenza
Théophile Baïssas, Florence Boisnard, Inmaculada Cuesta Esteve, Marta Garcia Sánchez, Christine E Jones, Thierry Rigoine de Fougerolles, Litjen Tan, Olivier Vitoux & Christina Klein, 2021, BMC Public Health, 21(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-12198-2
Type: article
Evidence around the impact of pulmonary rehabilitation and exercise on redox status in COPD: a systematic review
Alastair Watson, Tom M A Wilkinson & Anna Freeman, 2021, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 3
DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2021.782590
Type: review
Prevalence of overweight and obesity in people with severe mental illness: systematic review and meta-analysis
Medhia Afzal, Bilal Ahmad, Nida Afsheen, Faiza Aslam, Ayaz Ali, Rubab Ayesha, Maria Bryant, Richard Holt, Humaira Khalid, Kousar Ishaq, Kamrun Nahar Koly, Sukanya Rajan, Jobaida Saba, Nilesh Tirbhowan & Gerardo A Zavala, 2021, Frontiers in Endocrinology, 12
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2021.769309
Type: article
Nutrition, immunity and lung health: Time to take center stage
Emma J. Derbyshire & Philip Calder, 2021, Frontiers in Nutrition
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.797554
Type: letterEditorial
Associations of Childcare Arrangements with Adiposity Measures in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Cohort: The GUSTO Study
Beverly Wen-Xin Wong, Jia Ying Toh, Ray Sugianto, Airu Chia, Mya Thway Tint, Wen Lun Yuan, Natarajan Padmapriya, Carla Lanca, Seang-Mei Saw, Yung Seng Lee, Lynette P. Shek, Kok Hian Tan, Fabian Yap, Keith Godfrey, Yap-Seng Chong, Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, Johan G. Eriksson, Shiao-Yng Chan & Mary F.F. Chong, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182212178
Type: article
Early parenteral nutrition for preterm infants: perhaps more complicated than it first appears
Mark John Johnson, 2021, Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 107(2), 116-117
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-323072
Type: letterEditorial
Maternal smoking behaviour across the first two pregnancies and small for gestational age birth: Analysis of the SLOPE (Studying Lifecourse Obesity PrEdictors) population-based cohort in the South of England
Elizabeth Taylor, Pia Doh, Nida Ziauddeen, Keith Godfrey, Ann Berrington & Nisreen Alwan, 2021, PLoS ONE, 16(11 November)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260134
Type: article