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

Patterns of Growth in Childhood in Relation to Adult Schooling Attainment and Intelligence Quotient in 6 Birth Cohorts in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from the Consortium of Health-Oriented Research in Transitioning Societies (COHORTS)
Natalia E. Poveda, Fernando P. Hartwig, Cesar G. Victora, Linda S. Adair, Fernando C. Barros, Santosh K. Bhargava, Bernardo L. Horta, Nanette R. Lee, Reynaldo Martorell, Mónica Mazariegos, Ana M.B. Menezes, Shane A. Norris, Linda M. Richter, Harshpal Singh Sachdev, Alan Stein, Fernando C. Wehrmeister & Aryeh D. Stein, 2021, The Journal of nutrition, 151(8), 2342-2352
DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxab096
Type: article
Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: survival analysis using visual and computer-based computed tomography assessment
Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, An Zhao, Nesrin Mogulkoc, Iain Stewart, Mark Jones, Coline van Moorsel, Recep Savas, Athol Wells, Sam Janes, Daniel Alexander & Joseph Jacob, 2021, EClinicalMedicine
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101009
Type: article
Real-world omalizumab and mepolizumab treated difficult asthma phenotypes and their clinical outcomes
Wei Chern Gavin Fong, Adnan Azim, Deborah Knight, Heena Mistry, Anna Freeman, Mae Felongco, Aref Kyyaly, Matthew Harvey, Patrick Dennison, Hongmei Zhang, Peter Howarth, S Hasan Arshad, Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy & Mohammed Aref Kyyaly, 2021, Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 51(8), 1019-1032
DOI: 10.1111/cea.13882
Type: article
Shorter leukocyte telomere length is associated with adverse COVID-19 outcomes: a cohort study in UK Biobank
Qingning Wang, Veryan Codd, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Crispin Musicha, Vasiliki Bountziouka, Stephen K. Kaptoge, Elias Allara, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Adam S. Butterworth, Angela M. Wood, John R. Thompson, Steffen E. Petersen, Nicholas Harvey, John N. Danesh, Nilesh J. Samani & Christopher P. Nelson, 2021, EBioMedicine, 70
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103485
Type: article
Methylation of Host Genes Associated with Coronavirus Infection from Birth to 26 Years
Rutu Patel, Aniruddha Rathod, Parnian Kheirkhah Rahimabad, Jiasong Duan, Hongmei Zhang, S. Hasan Arshad & Wilfred Karmaus, 2021, Genes, 12(8)
DOI: 10.3390/genes12081198
Type: article
Predictive role of haematological determinants on outcomes of critically Ill COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care unit
Ahilanandan Dushianthan, Nabil Abdul, Josh Dmochowski, Izabela James, Lesley Heesom, Jennifer Westwood, Judith Effney, Sarah Bruty, Kordo Saeed, Savita Rangarajan & Rashid Kazmi, 2021, Cureus, 13(7), e16764
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.16764
Type: article
The road to addressing Long Covid
Nisreen A. Alwan, 2021, Science, 373(6554), 491-493
DOI: 10.1126/science.abg7113
Type: review