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
Connect with Stephen

Email: S.A.Wootton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Graham Roberts

Prof in Paed. Allergy & Resp. Medicine
Connect with Graham

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

Non-invasive biomarkers of musculoskeletal health with high discriminant ability for age and gender
Sandra Agyapong-Badu, Martin Warner, Dinesh Samuel, Vasiliki Koutra & Maria Stokes, 2021, Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10(7)
DOI: 10.3390/jcm10071352
Type: article
Respiratory tract infections and antibiotic resistance: a protective role for vitamin D?
Emma Derbyshire & Philip Calder, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology, 8
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.652469
Type: review
Influence of hypoxia on the epithelial-pathogen interactions in the lung: implications for respiratory disease
Lee K. Page, Karl J. Staples, C. Mirella Spalluto, Alastair Watson & Thomas Wilkinson, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology, 12
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.653969
Type: article
Association between preterm-birth phenotypes and differential morbidity, growth, and neurodevelopment at age 2 years: results from the INTERBIO-21st Newborn Study
Jose Villar, María C Restrepo-Méndez, Rose McGready, Fernando C Barros, Cesar G Victora, Shama Munim, Aris T Papageorghiou, Roseline Ochieng, Rachel Craik, Hellen C Barsosio, James A Berkley, Maria Carvalho, Michelle Fernandes, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Ann Lambert, Shane A Norris, Eric O Ohuma, Alan Stein, Chrystelle O O Tshivuila-Matala, Krina T Zondervan, Adele Winsey, Francois Nosten, Ricardo Uauy, Zulfiqar A Bhutta & Stephen H Kennedy, 2021, JAMA Pediatrics, 175(5), 483-493
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.6087
Type: article
Quantitative Proteomic Analysis in Alveolar Type II Cells Reveals the Different Capacities of RAS and TGF-β to Induce Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition
Yilu Zhou, Charlotte Hill, Liudi Yao, Juanjuan Li, David Hancock, Julian Downward, Mark Jones, Donna Davies, Robert Ewing, Paul Skipp & Yihua Wang, 2021, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 8
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.595712
Type: article
Determination of size of urban particulates from occluded scattering patterns using deep learning and data augmentation
James Grant-Jacob, Matthew Praeger, Matthew Loxham, R.W. Eason & Benjamin Mills, 2021, Environmental Research Communications, 3(2)
DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/abed94
Type: article
Relationships between age, frailty, length of care home residence and biomarkers of immunity and inflammation in older care home residents in the UK
Vivian M. Castro-Herrera, Mark Lown, Helena L. Fisk, Eleri Owen-Jones, Mandy Lau, Rachel Lowe, Kerenza Hood, David Gillespie, F.D. Richard Hobbs, Paul Little, Christopher C. Butler, Elizabeth A. Miles & Philip C. Calder, 2021, Frontiers in Aging, 2
DOI: 10.3389/fragi.2021.599084
Type: article