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

FRAX-based intervention thresholds for Pakistan
H. Johansson, G. Naureen, R. Iqbal, L. Jafri, A.H. Khan, M. Umer, E. Liu, Lisbeth Vandenput, M. Lorentzon, E. V. McCloskey, J. A. Kanis & Nicholas C. Harvey, 2021, Osteoporosis International
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-021-06087-y
Type: article
Cam morphology but neither acetabular dysplasia nor pincer morphology is associated with osteophytosis throughout the hip: findings from a cross-sectional study in UK Biobank
Benjamin Faber, Raja Ebsim, Fiona R. Saunders, Monika Frysz , Jennifer S. Gregory, Richard M. Aspden, Nicholas Harvey, George Davey Smith, Timothy Cootes, Claudia Lindner & J.H. Tobias, 2021, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 29(11), 1521-1529
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2021.08.002
Type: article
Changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards cytomegalovirus in pregnancy through film-based antenatal education: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of a digital educational intervention
Anna Calvert, Tushna Vandrevala, Robin Parsons, Victoria Barber, Alex Book, Gayle Book, David Carrington, Vanessa Greening, Paul Griffiths, Danielle Hake, Asma Khalil, Suzanne Luck, Amy Montague, Caroline Star, Irina Chis Ster, Sharon Wood, Paul T. Heath & Christine E Jones, 2021, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 21(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-021-03979-z
Type: article
Planning and optimising a digital intervention to protect older adults’ cognitive health
Rosie Essery, Sebastien Pollet, Kirsten Smith, Fiona Mowbray, Joanna Slodkowska-Barabasz, James Denison-Day, Victoria Hayter, Katherine Bradbury, Elisabeth Grey, Max Western, Alexander MC Milton, Cheryl Hunter, Anne Ferrey, Andre M Muller, Beth Stuart, Nanette Mutrie, Simon J. Griffin, Tony Kendrick, Helen Brooker, Bernard Gudgin, Rosemary Phillips, Tom Stokes, John Niven, Paul Little & Lucy Yardley, 2021, Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s40814-021-00884-2
Type: article
Vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 disease: safety but unproven efficacy reply to Dr Helga Rhein.
Nicholas Harvey, Cyrus Cooper & Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, 2021, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 33(9), 2635-2636
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-021-01947-3
Type: letterEditorial
Developing an intervention to optimise the outcome of cardiac surgery in people with diabetes: the OCTOPuS pilot study
Richard Holt, Katharine Barnard-Kelly, Georgios Dritsakis, Kerensa Thorne, Lauren Cohen, Elizabeth Dixon, Mayank Patel, Philip Newland-Jones, Helen Patridge, Suvitesh Luthra, Sunil Ohri, Kareem Salhiyyah, Joanna Picot, John Niven, Andrew Cook & Jess Boxall, 2021, Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s40814-021-00887-z
Type: article
Maternal perspectives on infant feeding practices in Soweto, South Africa
Stephanie V. Wrottesley, Alessandra Prioreschi, Wiedaad Slemming, Emmanuel Cohen, Cindy Lee Dennis & Shane A. Norris, 2021, Public Health Nutrition, 24(12), 3602-3614
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980020002451
Type: review