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
Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Risk score to stratify miscarriage risk levels in preconception women
Xin Hui Choo, Chee Wai Ku, Yin Bun Cheung, Keith Godfrey, Yap-Seng Chong, Lynette Pei-Chi Shek , Kok Hian Tan, Thiam Chye Tan, Nadarajah Sadhana, Fabian Yap, Marjorelee T. Colega, Mary Foong-Fong Chong, Shiao-Yng Chan, See Ling Loy & Jerry Kok Yen Chan, 2021, Scientific Reports, 11(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91567-8
Type: article
The HSD17B13 rs72613567 variant is associated with lower levels of albuminuria in patients with biopsy-proven nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Dan-Qin Sun, Ting-Yao Wang, Kenneth I. Zheng, Hao-Yang Zhang, Xiao-Dong Wang, Giovanni Targher , Christopher Byrne, Yong-Ping Chen, Wei-Jie Yuan, Yan Jin & Ming-Hua Zheng, 2021, Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases, 31(6), 1822-1831
DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2021.02.018
Type: article
Therapeutic options for CTLA-4 insufficiency
2021, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.04.039
Type: article
Engagement with daily testing instead of self-isolating in contacts of confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2
Alex Martin, Sarah Denford, Nicola Love, Derren Ready, Isabel Oliver, Richard Amlôt, G.J. Rubin & Lucy Yardley, 2021, BMC Public Health, 21(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11135-7
Type: article
Women’s perceptions of factors influencing their food shopping choices and how supermarkets can support them to make healthier choices
Preeti Dhuria, Wendy Lawrence, Sarah Crozier, Cyrus Cooper, Janis Baird & Christina Vogel, 2021, BMC Public Health, 21(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11112-0
Type: article
Characterising and monitoring preconception health in England: a review of national population-level indicators and core data sources
Danielle Schoenaker, Judith Stephenson, Anne Connolly, Sally Shillaker, Sarah Fishburn, Mary Barker, Keith Godfrey & Nisreen Alwan, 2021, Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
DOI: 10.1017/S2040174421000258
Type: article
Mixed methods process evaluation of My Breathing Matters, a digital intervention to support self-management of asthma
Kate Greenwell, Benjamin Ainsworth, Anne Bruton, Elizabeth Murray, Daniel Russel, Mike Thomas & Lucy Yardley, 2021, NPJ primary care respiratory medicine, 31(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41533-021-00248-6
Type: article