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

24-hour movement behaviour profiles and their transition in children aged 5.5 and 8 years – findings from a prospective cohort study
Natarajan Padmapriya, Bozhi Chen, Claire Marie Jie Lin Goh, Lynette Pei-Chi Shek , Yap-Seng Chong, Kok Hian Tan, Shiao-Yng Chan, Fabian Yap, Keith Godfrey, Yung Seng Lee, Johan G. Eriksson, Jonathan Y. Bernard & Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, 2021, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 18(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12966-021-01210-y
Type: article
Proposal of 0.5 mg of protein/100 g of processed food as threshold for voluntary declaration of food allergen traces in processed food: A first step in an initiative to better inform patients and avoid fatal allergic reactions, A GA²LEN position paper
Torsten Zuberbier, Tamara Dörr, Werner Aberer, Montserrat Alvaro, Elizabeth Angier, Stefania Arasi, Hasan Arshad, Barbara Ballmer-Weber, Joan Bartra, Lisa Beck, Philippe Bégin, Carsten Bindslev-Jensen, Jovanka Bislimovska, Jean Bousquet, Knut Brockow, Andrew Bush, Antonella Cianferoni, Michael J Cork, Adnan Custovic, Ulf Darsow, Nicolette de Jong, Diana Deleanu, Stefano Del Giacco, Antoine Deschildre, Audrey Dunn Galvin, Motohiro Ebisawa, Montserrat Fernández-Rivas, Marta Ferrer, Alessandro Fiocchi, Roy Gerth van Wijk, Maia Gotua, Kate Grimshaw, Josefine Grünhagen, Enrico Heffler, Michihiro Hide, Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber, Cristoforo Incorvaia, Christer Janson, Swen Malte John, Carla Jones, Marek Jutel, Norito Katoh, Benjamin Kendziora, Tamar Kinaciyan, Edward Knol, Oksana Kurbacheva, Susanne Lau, Richard Loh, Carlo Lombardi, Mika Mäkelä, Mary Jane Marchisotto, Michael Makris, Marcus Maurer, Rosan Meyer, Dragan Mijakoski, Jordan Minov, Joaquim Mullol, Caroline Nilsson, Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, Bright I Nwaru, Mikela Odemyr, Giovanni Battista Pajno, Sushil Paudel, Nikolaos G Papadopoulos, Harald Renz, Giampaolo Ricci, Johannes Ring, Barbara Rogala, Hugh Sampson, Gianenrico Senna, Brigita Sitkauskiene, Peter Kenneth Smith, Katarina Stevanovic, Sasho Stoleski, Hania Szajewska, Akio Tanaka, Ana Todo-Bom, Fatih Alexander Topal, Erkka Valovirta, Ronald Van Ree, Carina Venter, Stefan Wöhrl, Gary W K Wong, Zuotao Zhao & Margitta Worm, 2021, Allergy
DOI: 10.1111/all.15167
Type: article
Amoxicillin duration and dose for community-acquired pneumonia in children: the CAP-IT factorial non-inferiority RCT
Sam Barratt, Julia A Bielicki, David Dunn, Saul N Faust, Adam Finn, Lynda Harper, Pauline Jackson, Mark D Lyttle, Colin Ve Powell, Louise Rogers, Damian Roland, Wolfgang Stöhr, Kate Sturgeon, Elia Vitale, Mandy Wan, Diana M Gibb & Mike Sharland, 2021, Health technology assessment (Winchester, England), 25(60), 1-72
DOI: 10.3310/hta25600
Type: article
Effect of amoxicillin dose and treatment duration on the need for antibiotic re-treatment in children with community-acquired pneumonia: The CAP-IT randomized clinical trial
Julia A Bielicki, Wolfgang Stöhr, Sam Barratt, David Dunn, Nishdha Naufal, Damian Roland, Kate Sturgeon, Adam Finn, Juan Pablo Rodriguez-Ruiz, Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar, Colin Powell, Saul N Faust, Anastasia E Alcock, Dani Hall, Gisela Robinson, Daniel B Hawcutt, Mark D Lyttle, Diana M Gibb & Mike Sharland, 2021, JAMA, 326(17), 1713-1724
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.17843
Type: article
European Respiratory Society clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis of asthma in children aged 5 to 16 years
Erol A Gaillard, Claudia E. Kuehni, Steve Turner, Myrofora Goutaki, Karl A Holden, Carmen CM de Jong, Christiane Lex, David Lo, Jane Lucas, Fabio Midulla, Rebeca Mozun, Giorgio Piacentini, David Rigau, Bart Rottier, Mike Thomas, Thomy Tonia, Jakob Usemann, Ozge Yilmaz, Angela Zacharasiewicz & Alexander Moeller, 2021, European Respiratory Journal, 58(5)
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.04173-2020
Type: article
Fasting Ketonuria and the Risk of Incident Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with and without Liver Fibrosis in Nondiabetic Adults
Yejin Kim, Yoosoo Chang, Min-Jung Kwon, Yun Soo Hong, Mi Kyung Kim, Won Sohn, Yong Kyun, Hocheol Shin, Sarah H. Wild, Christopher Byrne & Seungho Ryu , 2021, American Journal of Gastroenterology, 116(11), 2270-2278
DOI: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000001344
Type: article
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and risk of fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis
Alessandro Mantovani, Alessandro Csermely, Graziana Petracca, Giorgia Beatrice, Kathleen E. Corey, Tracey G. Simon, Christopher Byrne & Giovanni Targher, 2021, The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 6(11), 903-913
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-1253(21)00308-3
Type: article