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…
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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

Folate and vitamin B12 status
Wenneke van Weelden, Paul T. Seed, Elie Antoun, Keith Godfrey, Negusse Kitaba, Karen Lillycrop, Kathryn V. Dalrymple, Agata Sobczyńska-Malefora, Rebecca C. Painter, Lucilla Poston, Sara L. White & Angela Flynn, 2021, Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 13(2), 168-176
DOI: 10.1017/s2040174421000246
Type: article
Childhood vascular phenotypes have differing associations with prenatal and postnatal growth
Line Sletner, Sarah Crozier, Hazel Inskip, Keith Godfrey, Pamela A Mahon, Scott T. Chiesa, Marietta Charakida, Cyrus Cooper & Mark Hanson, 2021, Journal of Hypertension, 39(9), 1884-1892
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000002870
Type: article
Properties of non-aminoglycoside compounds used to stimulate translational readthrough of ptc mutations in primary ciliary dyskinesia
Maciej Dabrowski, Zuzanna Bukowy-Bieryllo, Claire L. Jackson & Ewa Zietkiewicz, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(9)
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22094923
Type: article
Seroprevalence of bordetella pertussis infection in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in England
Tom M.A. Wilkinson, Peter Van den Steen, Brigitte Cheuvart, Nathalie Baudson, Monique Dodet, Elisa Turriani, Lauriane Harrington, Nadia Meyer, Simona Rondini, Laura Taddei & Piyali Mukherjee, 2021, COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 18(3), 341-348
DOI: 10.1080/15412555.2021.1920904
Type: article
3-month, 6-month, 9-month, and 12-month respiratory outcomes in patients following COVID-19-related hospitalisation: a prospective study
Xiaojun Wu, Xiaofan Liu, Yilu Zhou, Hongying Yu, Ruiyun Li, Qingyuan Zhan, Fang Ni, Si Fang, Yang Lu, Xuhong Ding, Hailing Liu, Robert Ewing, Mark Jones, Yi Hu, Hanxiang Nie & Yihua Wang, 2021, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00174-0
Type: article
A cluster-randomised controlled trial of the LifeLab education intervention to improve health literacy in adolescents
Kathryn Woods-Townsend, Polly Hardy-Johnson, Lisa Bagust, Mary Barker, Hannah Davey, Janice B Griffiths, Marcus Grace, Wendy Lawrence, Donna Lovelock, Mark Hanson, Keith Godfrey & Hazel Inskip, 2021, PLoS ONE, 16(5 May)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250545
Type: article
Associations of meat and fish consumption with conventional and radiomics cardiovascular magnetic resonance phenotypes in the UK Biobank
Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Celeste McCracken, Polyxeni Gkontra, Akshay Jaggi, Maddalena Ardissino, Jackie Cooper, Luca Biasiolli, Nay Aung, Stefan K. Piechnik, Stefan Neubauer, Patricia B. Munroe, Karim Lekadir, Nicholas Harvey & Steffen E. Petersen, 2021, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 8
DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.667849
Type: article