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

Healthcare resource use and costs for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus with and without severe mental illness in England
Han-I Wang, Lu Han, Rowena Jacobs, Stephanie L Prady, Richard Holt, Simon Gilbody, David Shiers, Sarah Alderson, Catherine Hewitt, Jo Taylor, Charlotte E Kitchen, Sue Bellass & Najma Siddiqi, 2021, British Journal of Psychology
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2021.131
Type: article
APOE genotype modifies the plasma oxylipin response to omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation in healthy individuals
Rasha N. Saleh, Annette West, Annika I. Ostermann, Nils H. Schebb , Philip Calder & Anne Marie Minihane, 2021, Frontiers in Nutrition, 8
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.723813
Type: article
Myo-inositol – a potential prophylaxis against premature onset of labour and preterm birth
Neha Sharma, Oliver C. Watkins, Anne H.Y. Chu, Wayne Cutfield, Keith Godfrey, Hannah E.J. Yong & Shiao-Yng Chan, 2021, Nutrition Research Reviews
DOI: 10.1017/S0954422421000299
Type: article
Fractional exhaled nitric oxide nonsuppression identifies corticosteroid-resistant type 2 signaling in severe asthma
2021, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 204(6), 731-734
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202104-1040LE
Type: article
Bidirectional epithelial-mesenchymal crosstalk provides self-sustaining profibrotic signals in pulmonary fibrosis
Liudi Yao, Yilu Zhou, Juanjuan Li, Leanne Wickens, Franco Conforti, Anna Simron Rattu, Fathima M Ibrahim, Aiman Alzetani, Benjamin Marshall, Sophie Fletcher, David Hancock, Timothy Wallis, Julian Downward, Robert Ewing, Luca Richeldi, Paul Skipp, Donna Davies, Mark Glynne Jones & Yihua Wang, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 297(3)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101096
Type: article
Secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in hospitalised COVID-19 patients as indicated by a modified HScore is infrequent and high scores do not associate with increased mortality
Michael R Ardern-Jones, Matt Stammers, Hang Tt Phan, Florina Borca, Anastasia Koutalopoulou, Ying Teo, James Batchelor, Trevor Smith & Andrew S Duncombe, 2021, Clinical Medicine, 21(5), e543-e547
DOI: 10.7861/clinmed.2021-0053
Type: article
Maternal diet in pregnancy and child's respiratory outcomes: an individual participant data meta-analysis of 18,000 children
Sara M. Mensink-Bout, Evelien R. van Meel, Johan C. de Jongste, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Adrien M. Aubert, Jonathan Y. Bernard, Ling-Wei Chen, Cyrus Cooper, Sarah Crozier, Wojciech Hanke, Nicholas Harvey, James R. Hebert, Barbara Heude, Joanna Jerzynska, Cecily Kelleher, John Mehegan, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, Catherine M. Phillips, Kinga Polanska, Caroline L. Relton, Nitin Shivappa, Matthew Suderman, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe & Liesbeth Duijts, 2021, European Respiratory Journal
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01315-2021
Type: article