Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Read

Chair of Infectious Diseases
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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…
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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

TA allele of rs2070673 in the CYP2E1 gene is associated with lobular inflammation and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in patients with biopsy-proven nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Hong-Lei Ma, Sui-Dan Chen, Kenneth I Zheng, Yue Yu, Xin-Xin Wang, Liang-Jie Tang, Gang Li, Rafael S. Rios, Ou-Yang Huang, Xiao-Yong Zheng, Ren-Ai Xu, Giovanni Targher, Christopher Byrne, Xiao-Dong Wang, Yong-Ping Chen & Ming-Hua Zheng, 2021, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 36(10), 2925-2934
DOI: 10.1111/jgh.15554
Type: article
A multimodal quality improvement approach to promote normothermia in very preterm infants
Aneurin Young, Fameesh Azeez, Santan Pawalu Godad, Preethish Shetty & Alok Sharma, 2021, Acta Paediatrica, 110(10), 2745-2752
DOI: 10.1111/apa.16009
Type: article
How can the orthopedic surgeon ensure optimal Vitamin D status in patients operated for an osteoporotic fracture?
Thierry Chevalley, Maria Luisa Brandi, Etienne Cavalier, Nicholas Harvey, Giovanni Iolascon, Cyrus Cooper, Didier Hannouche, Jean-Francois Kaux, Andreas Kurth, Stefania Maggi, Gerrit Maier, Kyriakos Papavasiliou, Nasser M. Al-Daghri, Manuel Sosa-Henríquez, Norbert Suhm, Umberto Tarantino, Jean-Yves Reginster & Rene Rizzoli, 2021, Osteoporosis International, 32(10), 1921-1935
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-021-05957-9
Type: review
Increase in circulation of non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory viruses following easing of social distancing is associated with increasing hospital attendance
Alex R. Tanner, Nathan J. Brendish, Stephen Poole, Jessica Pregon & Tristan W. Clark, 2021, Journal of Infection, 83(4), 496-522
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.07.022
Type: letterEditorial
Predicted number of peanut-allergic patients needed to treat with epicutaneous immunotherapy (EPIT) to prevent one allergic reaction
Benjamin C. Remington, Stef J. Koppelman, Todd D. Green, Gideon Lack, Graham Roberts & Dianne E. Campbell, 2021, Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 76(10), 3223-3226
DOI: 10.1111/all.14973
Type: letterEditorial
Prevalence of sarcopenia and relationships between muscle and bone in Indian men and women
Ayse Zengin, Bharati Kulkarni, Anuradha V Khadilkar, Neha Kajale, Veena Ekbote, Nikhil Tandon, Santosh K. Bhargava, Harshpal Singh Sachdev, Shikha Sinha, David Scott, Sanjay Kinra, Caroline Fall & Peter R. Ebeling, 2021, Calcified Tissue International, 109(4), 423-433
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-021-00860-1
Type: article
SARS-CoV-2 Viral load at presentation to hospital is independently associated with the risk of death
Alex Tanner, Hang Thi Thu Phan, Nathan Brendish, Florina Borca, Kate Beard, Stephen Poole & Tristan Clark, 2021, Journal of Infection, 83(4), 458-466
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.08.003
Type: article