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
Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Influence of red blood cell indices on HbA1c performance in detecting dysglycaemia in a Singapore preconception cohort study.
See Ling Loy, Jinjie Lin, Yin Bun Cheung, Aravind Venkatesh Sreedharan, Xinyi Chin, Keith Godfrey, Kok Hian Tan, Lynette P. Shek, Yap-Seng Chong, Melvin Khee-Shing Leow, Chin Meng Khoo, Yung Seng Lee, Shiao-Yng Chan, Ngee Lek, Jerry Kok Yen Chan & Fabian Yap, 2021, Scientific Reports, 11(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00445-w
Type: article
RSV: perspectives to strengthen the need for protection in all infants
Jose Antonio Navarro Alonso, Louis J Bont, Elena Bozzola, Egbert Herting, Federico Lega, Silke Mader, Marta C Nunes, Octavio Ramilo, George Valiotis, Catherine Weil Olivier, Ann Yates & Saul N Faust, 2021, Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 18(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12982-021-00104-5
Type: review
Incidental findings in UK healthy volunteers screened for a COVID-19 vaccine trial
Susanne H Hodgson, Poppy Iveson, Jessica Larwood, Sophie Roche, Hazel Morrison, Catherine Cosgrove, Eva Galiza, Sabina Ikram, Nana-Marie Lemm, Savviz Mehdipour, Daniel Owens, Mihaela Pacurar, Michael Schumacher, Robert H Shaw, Saul N Faust, Paul T Heath, Andrew J Pollard, Katherine R W Emary, Katarina M Pollock & Rajeka Lazarus, 2021, Clinical and translational science
DOI: 10.1111/cts.13170
Type: article
Sleep duration, sleep quality, and the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A cohort study
Yoo Jin Um, Yoosoo Chang, Hyun-Suk Jung, In Young Cho, Jun Ho Shin, Hocheol Shin, Sarah H Wild, Christopher D Byrne & Seungho Ryu, 2021, Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, 12(10), e00417
DOI: 10.14309/ctg.0000000000000417
Type: article
The effects of specific omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and antioxidant vitamins on gait and functional capacity parameters in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
Panayiotis Aristotelous, Manos Stefanakis, Marios Pantzaris, Constantinos S. Pattichis, Philip Calder, Ioannis S. Patrikios, Giorgos K. Sakkas & Christoforos D. Giannaki, 2021, Nutrients, 13(10)
DOI: 10.3390/nu13103661
Type: article
Growth differentiation factor-15 and the association between type 2 diabetes and liver fibrosis in NAFLD
Josh Bilson, Eleonora Scorletti, Laure B. Bindels , Paul Afolabi, Giovanni Targher, Philip Calder, Jaswinder K. Sethi & Christopher Byrne, 2021, Nutrition & Diabetes, 11(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41387-021-00170-3
Type: article
Making Every Contact Count and Healthy Conversation Skills as very brief or brief behaviour change interventions: a scoping review
Amelia Parchment, Wendy Lawrence, Rachel Perry, Em Rahman, Nick Townsend, Elaine Wainright & David Wainwright, 2021, Journal of Public Health
DOI: 10.1007/s10389-021-01653-4
Type: review