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
Connect with Keith

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

Nutrition and immunity : lessons for COVID-19
Philip Calder, 2021, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 11(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41430-021-00949-8
Type: review
Nutrition and immunity: lessons for COVID-19
Philip C Calder, 2021, Nutrition & Diabetes, 11(1), 19
DOI: 10.1038/s41387-021-00165-0
Type: review
The effects of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and an in-hospital exercise training programme on physical fitness and quality of life in locally advanced rectal cancer patients: a randomised controlled trial (The EMPOWER Trial)
Lisa Loughney, Malcolm A West, Helen Moyses, Andrew Bates, Graham J Kemp, Lesley Hawkins, Judit Varkonyi-Sepp, Shaunna Burke, Christopher P Barben, Peter M Calverley, Trevor Cox, Daniel H Palmer, Michael G Mythen, Michael P W Grocott & Sandy Jack, 2021, Perioperative Medicine, 10(1), 23
DOI: 10.1186/s13741-021-00190-8
Type: article
Effectiveness of digital interventions to improve household and community infection prevention and control behaviours and to reduce incidence of respiratory and/or gastro-intestinal infections: a rapid systematic review
Natalie Gold, Xiaoyang Hu, Sarah Denford, Ru-yu Xia, Lauren Towler, Julia Groot, Rachel Gledhill, Merlin Willcox, Ben Ainsworth, Sascha, Jane Miller, Michael Moore, Paul Little, Richard Amlôt, Tim Chadborn & Lucy Yardley, 2021, BMC Public Health, 21(1), 1180
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11150-8
Type: article
Circulating miRNAs – a potential tool to identify severe asthma risk?
Mohammed Aref Kyyaly, Tilman Sanchez-Elsner, Peijun He, Collin L. Sones, S Hasan Arshad & Ramesh J. Kurukulaaratchy, 2021, Clinical and Translational Allergy, 11(4)
DOI: 10.1002/clt2.12040
Type: letterEditorial
Brown adipose tissue, adiposity and metabolic profile in preschool children
Tint Mya, Navin Michael, Suresh Anand Sadananthan, Jonathan Y. Huang, Chin Meng Khoo, Keith Godfrey, L.P.C. Shek, Ngee Lek, Kok Hian Tan, Fabian Yap, Sendhil Velan, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap-Seng Chong, Neerja Karnani, Shiao-Yng Chan, Melvin Khee-Shing Leow, Kuan Jin Lee, Yung Seng Lee, H. Hu, Cuilin Zhang, M.V. Fortier & Johan G. Eriksson, 2021, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 106(10), 2901-2914
DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgab447
Type: article
Efficacy, use, and acceptability of a web-based self-management intervention designed to maximize sexual well-being in men living with prostate cancer
Sean R. O'Connor, Carrie Flannagan, Kader Parahoo, Mary Steele, Samantha Thompson, Suneil Jain, Michael Kirby, Nuala Brady, Roma Maguire, John Connaghan & Eilis M. McCaughan, 2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(7), e21502
DOI: 10.2196/21502
Type: article