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
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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

Ferroptosis and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: is there a link?
Gong Feng, Christopher Byrne, Giovanni Targher, Fudi Wang & Ming-Hua Zheng, 2022, Liver International, 42(7), 1496-1502
DOI: 10.1111/liv.15163
Type: review
Associations of early-life pet ownership with asthma and allergic sensitization: a meta-analysis of more than 77,000 children from the EU Child Cohort Network
Angela Pinot de Moira, Katrine Strandberg-Larsen, Tom Bishop, Marie Pedersen, Demetris Avraam, Tim Cadman, Lucinda Calas, Maribel Casas, Blandine de Lauzon Guillain, Ahmed Elhakeem, Ana Esplugues, Marisa Estarlich, Rachel E Foong, Sido Haakma, Jennifer R Harris, Rae-Chi Huang, Hazel Inskip, Aitana Lertxundi, Sara M Mensink-Bout, Johanna L T Nader, Costanza Pizzi, Maja Popovic, Theodosia Salika, Jordi Sunyer, Evelien R Van Meel, Morris A Swertz, Vincent W V Jaddoe, Paul Burton, Liesbeth Duijts & Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, 2022, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 150(1), 82-92
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2022.01.023
Type: article
FREM predicts 10-year incident fracture risk independent of FRAX (R) probability: a registry-based cohort study
William D. Leslie, Soren Moller, Michael K Skjodt, Lin Yan, Bo Abrahamsen, Lisa M. Lix, Eugene V. McCloskey, Helena Johansson, Nicholas Harvey, John A. Kanis & Katrine Hass Rubin, 2022, Osteoporosis International, 33(7), 1457-1463
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-022-06349-3
Type: article
Is the skull responsive to bone mineralisation stimuli in children?
Rebecca Moon, Stefania D'angelo, Sarah Crozier, Keith Godfrey, Justin Davies, Cyrus Cooper & Nicholas Harvey, 2022, Bone, 160
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2022.116415
Type: article
Safety and immunogenicity of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine in children aged 6-17 years: a preliminary report of COV006, a phase 2 single-blind, randomised, controlled trial
Grace Li, Federica Cappuccini, Natalie G Marchevsky, Parvinder K Aley, Robert Aley, Rachel Anslow, Sagida Bibi, Katrina Cathie, Elizabeth Clutterbuck, Saul N Faust, Shuo Feng, Paul T Heath, Simon Kerridge, Alice Lelliott, Yama Mujadidi, Khuen Foong Ng, Sarah Rhead, Hannah Roberts, Hannah Robinson, Marion R Roderick, Nisha Singh, David Smith, Matthew D Snape, Rinn Song, Karly Tang, Andy Yao, Xinxue Liu, Teresa Lambe & Andrew J Pollard, 2022, The Lancet, 399(10342), 2212-2225
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00770-X
Type: article
Efficacy and safety of a recombinant plant-based adjuvanted Covid-19 vaccine
Karen J Hager, Gonzalo Pérez Marc, Philipe Gobeil, Ricardo S Diaz, Gretchen Heizer, Conrado Llapur, Alexander I Makarkov, Eduardo Vasconcellos, Stéphane Pillet, Fernando Riera, Pooja Saxena, Priscila Geller Wolff, Kapil Bhutada, Garry Wallace, Hessam Aazami, Christine E Jones, Fernando P Polack, Luciana Ferrara, Judith Atkins, Iohann Boulay, Jiwanjeet Dhaliwall, Nathalie Charland, Manon M J Couture, Julia Jiang-Wright, Nathalie Landry, Sophie Lapointe, Aurélien Lorin, Asif Mahmood, Lawrence H Moulton, Emmy Pahmer, Julie Parent, Annie Séguin, Luan Tran, Thomas Breuer, Maria-Angeles Ceregido, Marguerite Koutsoukos, François Roman, Junya Namba, Marc-André D'Aoust, Sonia Trepanier, Yosuke Kimura & Brian J Ward, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine, 386(22), 2084-2096
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2201300
Type: article
Associations of maternal periconceptional alcohol consumption with offspring prehypertension/hypertension at age 6 years
Suresh Anand Sadananthan, Navin Michael, Mya Thway Tint, Kashthuri Thirumurugan, Wen Lun Yuan, Yi Ying Ong, Evelyn C. Law, Jonathan T.L. Choo, Lieng Hsi Ling, Lynette P. Shek, Fabian Yap, Kok Hian Tan, Mark Vickers, Keith Godfrey, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap-Seng Chong, Marielle Fortier, Yung Seng Lee, Johan G. Eriksson, Shiao-Yng Chan, Karen Moritz, Sendhil Velan & Mary E. Wlodek, 2022, Journal of Hypertension, 40(6), 1212-1222
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000003134
Type: article