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

Household environmental microbiota influences early-life eczema development
Le Duc Huy Ta, Carina Jing Xuan Tay, Christophe Lay, Paola Florez de Sessions, Cheryl Pei-Ting Tan, Michelle Jia-Yu Tay, Hui Xing Lau, Atiqa Binte Zulkiffi, Gaik Chin Yap, Elizabeth Huiwen Tham, Eliza Xin Peri Ho, Anne Eng Neo Goh, Keith Godfrey, Johan G. Eriksson, Jan Knol, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap-Seng Chong, Jerry Kok Yen Chan, Kok Hian Tan, Kok Wee Chong, Si Hui Goh, Zai Ru Cheng, Bee Wah Lee, Lynette P. Shek & Evelyn X.L. Loo, 2021, Environmental Microbiology Reports
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15684
Type: article
BMI trajectory in childhood is associated with asthma incidence at young adulthood mediated by DNA Methylation
Rutu Rathod, Hongmei Zhang, Wilfried Karmaus, Susan Ewart, Latha Perunthadambil Kadalayil, Caroline L. Relton, Susan Ring, Syed Arshad & John Holloway, 2021, Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 17(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s13223-021-00575-w
Type: article
Spectrum, risk factors, and outcomes of neurological and psychiatric complications of COVID-19: a UK-wide cross-sectional surveillance study
Amy L Ross Russell, Marc Hardwick, Athavan Jeyanantham, Laura M White, Saumitro Deb, Girvan Burnside, Harriet Joy, Craig J Smith, Thomas A Pollak, Timothy R Nicholson, Nicholas WS Davies, Hadi Manji, Ava Easton, Stephen Ray, Michael S Zandi, Jonathan P. Coles, David K. Menon, Aravinthan Varatharaj, Beth Mccausland, Mark A Ellul, Naomi Thomas, Gerome Breen, Stephen Keddie, Michael P Lunn, John PS Burn, Graziella Quattrocchi, Luke Dixon, Claire M Rice, George Pengas, Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Alan Carson, Eileen M. Joyce, Martin R Turner, Laura A Benjamin, Tom Solomon, Rachel Kneen, Sarah Pett, Rhys H Thomas, Benedict D Michael & Ian Galea, 2021, Brain Communications, 3(3), fcab168
DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcab168
Type: article
A portable droplet microfluidic device for cortisol measurements using a competitive heterogeneous assay
Gareth Evans, Wahida, Taskin Bhuiyan, Susan Pang, Brett Warren, Kyriacos Makris, Sharon Coleman, Sammer-Ul Hassan & Xize Niu, 2021, Analyst, 146(14), 4535-4544
DOI: 10.1039/d1an00671a
Type: article
Evaluation of a child food reward task and its association with maternal feeding practices
Jia Ying Toh, Phaik Ling Quah, Chun Hong Wong, Wen Lun Yuan, Izzuddin M. Aris, Keri McCrickerd, Keith Godfrey, Yap-Seng Chong, Lynette P. Shek, Kok Hian Tan, Fabian Yap, Michael J. Meaney, Ciaran G Forde, Yung Seng Lee, Birit F.P. Broekman & Mary F.F. Chong, 2021, PLoS ONE, 16(July)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254773
Type: article
“No official help is available” - experience of parents and children with congenital heart disease during COVID-19
Luise Marino, Richard Wagland, David Culliford, T Bharucha, Samantha Sodergren & Anne-Sophie Darlington, 2021, World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, 12(4), 500-507
DOI: 10.1177/21501351211007102
Type: article
Response to Verd and Verd Re: "COVID-19: A Redox Disease-What a Stress Pandemic Can Teach Us About Resilience and What We May Learn from the Reactive Species Interactome About Its Treatment"
Martin Feelisch, Andrew F Cumpstey, Anna D Clark, Jerome Santolini & Alan A Jackson, 2021, Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, 35(14), 1271-1272
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2021.0148
Type: letterEditorial