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
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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

Dichotomy in the impact of elevated maternal glucose levels on neonatal epigenome
Ives Yubin Lim, Xinyi Lin, Ai Ling Teh, Yonghui Wu, Li Chen, Menglan He, Shiao-Yng Chan, Julia L. MacIsaac, Jerry KY Chan, Kok Hian Tan, Mary Foong-Fong Chong, Michael S. Kobor, Keith Godfrey, Michael J. Meaney, Yung Seng Lee, Johan G. Eriksson, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap-Seng Chong & Neerja Karnani, 2021, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgab710
Type: article
Study protocol
2021, BMJ Open, 11(10)
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051433
Type: article
Prepregnancy adherence to plant-based diet indices and exploratory dietary patterns in relation to fecundability
Shan-Xuan Lim, See Ling Loy, Marjorelee T. Colega, Jun Shi Lai, Keith Godfrey, Yung Seng Lee, Kok Hian Tan, Fabian Yap, Lynette Pei-Chi Shek , Yap-Seng Chong, Johan G. Eriksson, Jerry Kok Yen Chan, Shiao-Yng Chan & Mary Foong-Fong Chong, 2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/nqab344
Type: article
Assessing movement quality in youth footballers: The relationship between Hip and Lower Limb Movement Screen and Functional Movement Screen
Pawel Linek, Paul E. Muckelt, Damian Sikora, Nadine Booysen & Maria Stokes, 2021, Applied Sciences, 11(19)
DOI: 10.3390/app11199298
Type: article
Body composition analysis by bioelectrical impedance and its relationship with nutritional status in older adults: a cross-sectional descriptive study
Adel A. Alhamdan , May N. Al-Muammar, Saad M. Bindawas, Sulaiman A. Alshammari, Maysoon M. Al-Amoud & Philip Calder, 2021, Progress in Nutrition
DOI: 10.23751/pn.v23i3.10530
Type: article
Process evaluations of a web-based intervention to increase handwashing during a pandemic: Moving Germ Defence from a randomised controlled trial to public dissemination
Sascha Miller, Benjamin Ainsworth, Mark Weal, Peter W.F. Smith, Paul Little, Lucy Yardley & Leanne Morrison, 2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(10)
DOI: 10.2196/26104
Type: article
The partitioning of newly assimilated linoleic and α‐linolenic acids between synthesis of longer-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and hydroxyoctadecaenoic acids is a putative branch point in T cell essential fatty acid metabolism
Johanna Von Gerichten, Annette West, Nicola Irvine, Elizabeth Miles, Philip Calder, Karen Lillycrop, Barbara Fielding & Graham Burdge, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology, 12
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.740749
Type: article