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
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

Infections due to Dysregulated Immunity: An emerging complication of Cancer Immunotherapy
Tommaso Geraldo Morelli, Kohei Fujita, Gil Redelman-Sidi & Paul Elkington, 2021, Thorax
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217260
Type: article
Daily testing for contacts of individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection and attendance and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in English secondary schools and colleges: an open-label, cluster-randomised trial
Bernadette C. Young, David Eyre, Saroj Kendrick, Chris White, Sylvester Smith, George Beveridge, Toby Nonnenmacher, Fegor Ichofu, Joseph Hillier, Sarah Oakley, Ian Diamond, Emma Rourke, Fiona Dawe, Ieuan Day, Lisa Davies, Paul Staite, Andrea Lacey, James McCrae, Ffion Jones, Joseph Kelly, Urszula Bankiewicz, Sarah Tunkel, Richard Ovens, David Chapman, Vineta Bhalla, Peter Marks, Nick Hicks, Tom Fowler, Susan Hopkins, Lucy Yardley & Tim Peto, 2021, The Lancet, 398(10307), 1217-1229
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01908-5
Type: article
3TR
Celeste Porsbjerg, Anke H. Maitland-Van der Zee, Guy Brusselle, Giorgio Walter Canonica, Alvar Agusti, Rosa Faner, Claus F. Vogelmeier, Martijn Nawijn, Maarten van den Berge, Franca Rusconi, Charles Pilette, Valeria Ramiconi, Courtney Coleman, Rekha Chaudhuri, Kian Fan Chung, Jadwiga Wedzicha, Sejla Saglani, Marc P. van der Schee, Liam Heaney, Arnaud Bourdin, Graham Roberts, Ratko Djukanovic, Piotr Kuna, Maciej Kupczyk, Judith Axmann, Heribert Staudinger, Graham W. Clarke, Sven Erik Dahlen & Chris Brightling, 2021, European Respiratory Journal, 58(4)
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02168-2021
Type: review
Multi-omics links IL-6 trans-signalling with neutrophil extracellular trap formation and Haemophilus infection in COPD
Sofia Winslow, Lina Odqvist, Sarah Diver, Rebecca Riise, Suado Abdillahi, Cecilia Wingren, Helena Lindmark, Annika Wellner, Sofia Lundin, Linda Yrlid, Elisabeth Ax, Ratko Djukanovic, Sriram Sridhar, Andrew Higham, Dave Singh, Thomas Southworth, Christopher E. Brightling, Henric K. Olsson & Zala Jevnikar, 2021, European Respiratory Journal, 58(4)
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.03312-2020
Type: article
Patient data ownership
2021, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 8(2)
DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsab023
Type: article
Prediction of imminent fracture risk in Canadian women and men aged 45 years or older: External validation of the Fracture Risk Evaluation Model (FREM)
Soren Moller, M.K. Skjodt, Lin Yan, Bo Abrahamsen, Lisa M. Lix, Eugene V. McCloskey, Helena Johansson, Nicholas Harvey, John A. Kanis, Katrine Hass Rubin & William D. Leslie, 2021, Osteoporosis International
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-021-06165-1
Type: article
Synergism versus Additivity
Daniel J Noel, C William Keevil & Sandra A Wilks, 2021, mBio, 12(5), e02281-21
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02281-21
Type: article