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
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
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Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Aetiology of acute respiratory infection in preschool children requiring hospitalisation in Europe-results from the PED-MERMAIDS multicentre case-control study
2021, BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 8(1)
DOI: 10.1136/bmjresp-2021-000887
Type: article
Fracture risk assessment by the FRAX model
E.V. McCloskey, Nicholas Harvey, H. Johansson, M. Lorentzon, E. Liu, Lisbeth Vandenput, W.D. Leslie & J A. Kanis, 2021, Climacteric
DOI: 10.1080/13697137.2021.1945027
Type: review
Osteoporosis and fractures in women: the burden of disease
M. Lorentzon, H. Johansson, Nicholas Harvey, E. Liu, Lisbeth Vandenput, E. V. McCloskey & J. A. Kanis, 2021, Climacteric
DOI: 10.1080/13697137.2021.1951206
Type: article
Review
Derek Tobin, Runar Vige & Philip Calder, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology, 12
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.676016
Type: review
Doxycycline for community treatment of suspected COVID-19 in people at high risk of adverse outcomes in the UK (PRINCIPLE): a randomised, controlled, open-label, adaptive platform trial
Christopher C. Butler, Ly Mee Yu, Jienchi Dorward, Oghenekome Gbinigie, Gail Hayward, Benjamin R. Saville, Oliver Van Hecke, Nicholas Berry, Michelle A. Detry, Christina Saunders, Mark Fitzgerald, Victoria Harris, Ratko Djukanovic, Stephan Gadola, John Kirkpatrick, Simon de Lusignan, Emma Ogburn, Philip H. Evans, Nicholas P.B. Thomas, Mahendra G. Patel & F. D.Richard Hobbs, 2021, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 9(9), 1010-1020
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00310-6
Type: article
A pas de deux of osteoporosis and sarcopenia: osteosarcopenia
Faidra Laskou, Harnish Patel, Cyrus Cooper & Elaine Dennison, 2021, Climacteric
DOI: 10.1080/13697137.2021.1951204
Type: review
AGILE: a seamless phase I/IIa platform for the rapid evaluation of candidates for COVID-19 treatment: an update to the structured summary of a study protocol for a randomised platform trial letter
Gareth O. Griffiths, Richard FitzGerald, Thomas Jaki, Andrea Corkhill, Helen Reynolds, Sean Ewings, Susannah Condie, Emma Tilt, Lucy Johnson, Mike Radford, Catherine Simpson, Geoffrey Saunders, Sara Yeats, Pavel Mozgunov, Olana Tansley-Hancock, Karen Martin, Nichola Downs, Izabela Eberhart, Jonathan W. B. Martin, Cristiana Goncalves, Anna Song, Tom Fletcher, Kelly Byrne, David G. Lalloo, Andrew Owen, Michael Jacobs, Lauren Walker, Rebecca Lyon, Christie Woods, Jennifer Gibney, Justin Chiong, Nomathemba Chandiwana, Shevin Jacob, Mohammed Lamorde, Catherine Orrell, Munir Pirmohamed & Saye Khoo, 2021, Trials, 22
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-021-05458-4
Type: article