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…
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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

Differential effects of ruminant and industrial 18-carbon trans monounsaturated fatty acids (trans-vaccenic and elaidic) on the inflammatory responses of an endothelial cell line
Carina A. Valenzuela, Ella J. Baker, Camila O. De Souza, Elizabeth A. Miles & Philip C. Calder, 2021, Molecules, 26(19)
DOI: 10.3390/molecules26195834
Type: article
Factors affecting adherence with treatment advice in a clinical trial of patients with severe asthma
John Busby, John G Matthews, Rekha Chaudhuri, Ian D Pavord, Timothy C Hardman, Joseph R Arron, Peter Bradding, Christopher E Brightling, David F Choy, Douglas C Cowan, Ratko Djukanovic, Catherine E Hanratty, Tim W Harrison, Cecile T Holweg, Peter H Howarth, Stephen J Fowler, James L Lordan, Adel H Mansur, Andrew Menzies-Gow, Robert M Niven, Douglas S Robinson, Samantha M Walker, Ashley Woodcock & Liam G Heaney, 2021, The European respiratory journal, 58(5)
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00768-2021
Type: article
Projecting the impact of triple CFTR modulator therapy on intravenous antibiotic requirements in cystic fibrosis using patient registry data combined with treatment effects from randomised trials
Ruth H Keogh, Rebecca Cosgriff, Eleni-Rosalina Andrinopoulou, Keith G Brownlee, Siobhán B Carr, Karla Diaz-Ordaz, Emily Granger, Nicholas P Jewell, Alex Lewin, Clemence Leyrat, Daniela K Schlüter, Maarten van Smeden, Rhonda D Szczesniak & Gary J Connett, 2021, Thorax
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-216265
Type: article
Understanding the burden of interstitial lung disease post-COVID-19
Jim M Wild, Joanna C Porter, Philip L Molyneaux, Peter M George, Iain Stewart, Richard James Allen, Raminder Aul, John Kenneth Baillie, Shaney L Barratt, Paul Beirne, Stephen M Bianchi, John F Blaikley, Jonathan Brooke, Nazia Chaudhuri, Guilhem Collier, Emma K Denneny, Annemarie Docherty, Laura Fabbri, Michael A Gibbons, Fergus V Gleeson, Bibek Gooptu, Ian P Hall, Neil A Hanley, Melissa Heightman, Toby E Hillman, Simon R Johnson, Mark G Jones, Fasihul Khan, Rod Lawson, Puja Mehta, Jane A Mitchell, Manuela Platé, Krisnah Poinasamy, Jennifer K Quint, Pilar Rivera-Ortega, Malcolm Semple, A John Simpson, Djf Smith, Mark Spears, LIsa G Spencer, Stefan C Stanel, David R Thickett, A A Roger Thompson, Simon Lf Walsh, Nicholas D Weatherley, Mark Everard Weeks, Dan G Wootton, Chris E Brightling, Rachel C Chambers, Ling-Pei Ho, Joseph Jacob, Karen Piper Hanley, Louise V Wain & R Gisli Jenkins, 2021, BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 8(1)
DOI: 10.1136/bmjresp-2021-001049
Type: article
Whole genome sequencing in the diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia
Gabrielle Wheway, N. Simon Thomas, Mary Carroll, Janice Coles, Regan Doherty, Patricia Goggin, Ben Green, Amanda Harris, David Hunt, Claire Jackson, Jenny Lord, Vito Mennella, James Thompson, Woolf Walker & Jane Lucas, 2021, Springer Nature, 14(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12920-021-01084-w
Type: article
Antibiotics for lower respiratory tract infection in children presenting in primary care in England (ARTIC PC)
Paul Little, Nick A Francis, Beth Stuart, Gilly O'Reilly, Natalie Thompson, Taeko Becque, Alastair D Hay, Kay Wang, Michael Sharland, Anthony Harnden, Guiqing Yao, James Raftery, Shihua Zhu, Joseph Little, Charlotte Hookham, Kate Rowley, Joanne Euden, Kim Harman, Samuel Coenen, Robert C Read, Catherine Woods, Christopher C Butler, Saul N Faust, Geraldine Leydon, Mandy Wan, Kerenza Hood, Jane Whitehurst, Samantha Richards-Hall, Peter Smith, Michael Thomas, Michael Moore & Theo Verheij, 2021, The Lancet, 398(10309), 1417-1426
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01431-8
Type: article
Genetic link determining the maternal-fetal circulation of Vitamin D
Aparna Sampathkumar, Karen Mei Ling Tan, Li Chen, Mary Foong-Fong Chong, Fabian Yap, Keith Godfrey, Yap-Seng Chong, Peter D. Gluckman, A. Ramasamy & Neerja Karmani, 2021, Frontiers in Genetics, 12
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.721488
Type: article