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
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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

The impact of Healthy Conversation Skills training on health professionals’ barriers to having behaviour change conversations: a pre-post survey using the Theoretical Domains Framework.
Jenna Hollis, Lucy Kocanda, Kirsty Seward, Claire Collins, Belinda Tully, Maralyn Foureur, Wendy Lawrence, Lesley MacDonald-Wicks & Tracy Schumacher, 2021, BMC Health Services Research, 21(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06893-4
Type: article
Effective nutrition support for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Managing malnutrition in primary care
Peter F. Collins, Anita Nathan, Shelley Roberts & Tom Wilkinson, 2021, British Journal of General Practice, 71(710), 427-428
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp21X717053
Type: review
SafeFit Trial: virtual clinics to deliver a multimodal intervention to improve psychological and physical well-being in people with cancer. Protocol of a COVID-19 targeted non-randomised phase III trial
Chloe Grimmett, Andrew Bates, Malcolm West, Samantha Leggett, Judit Varkonyi-Sepp, Anna Campbell, June Davis, Stephen Wootton, Clare Shaw, Rachael Barlow, Joanna Ashcroft, Andrew Scott, Helen Moyes, Lesley Hawkins, Denny Z H Levett, Fran Williams, Michael P W Grocott & Sandy Jack, 2021, BMJ Open, 11(8), e048175
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048175
Type: article
Dual RNASeq reveals NTHi-macrophage transcriptomic changes during intracellular persistence
Jodie Ackland, Ashley I. Heinson, David W. Cleary, Myron Christodoulides, Tom M Wilkinson & Karl J. Staples, 2021, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 11
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.723481
Type: article
Mortality in combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema patients is determined by the sum of pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema
An Zhao, Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, Nesrin Mogulkoc, Mark G Jones, Coline van Moorsel, Tamera J Corte, Chiara Romei, Recep Savas, Christopher J Brereton, Hendrik W van Es, Helen Jo, Annalisa De Liperi, Omer Unat, Katarina Pontoppidan, Frouke van Beek, Marcel Veltkamp, Peter Hopkins, Yuben Moodley, Alessandro Taliani, Laura Tavanti, Bahareh Gholipour, Arjun Nair, Sam Janes, Iain Stewart, David Barber, Daniel C Alexander, Athol U Wells & Joseph Jacob, 2021, ERJ Open Research, 7(3)
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00316-2021
Type: article
Increasing nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is associated with sex-dependent differences in early childhood growth: the GUSTO Mother-Offspring Cohort Study
Judith Ong, Suresh Sadananthan, Shu-E Soh, Sharon Ng, Wen Lun Yuan, I.M. Aris, Mya Thway Tint, Navin Michael, See Ling Loy, Kok Hian Tan, Keith Godfrey, Lynette Shek, Fabian Yap, Yung Seng Lee, Yap-Seng Chong & Shiao-Yng Chan, 2021, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 21(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-021-04024-9
Type: article
Exposures during the prepuberty period and future offspring's health
Cecilie Svanes, Randi J. Bertelsen, Simone Accordini, John Holloway, Petur Juliusson, Eistine Boateng, Susanne Krauss-Eschmann, Vivi Schlunssen, Francisco Gomez Real & Svein Magne Skulstad, 2021, Biology of Reproduction, 105(3), 667-680
DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioab158
Type: article