Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Read

Chair in Infectious Diseases
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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

Emeritus Professor Cyrus Cooper

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…
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Email: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Philip Calder

Professor of 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 (KEE) & Professor of Epidemiology & Human Development
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Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Hasan Arshad

Professor of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
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Email: S.H.Arshad@soton.ac.uk

Professor Graham Roberts

Professor of Paediatric 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 of Paediatric Immunity & Infection
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Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Association of plasma kynurenine pathway metabolite concentrations with metabolic health risk in pre-pubertal Asian children
Karen Mei Ling Tan, Mya Thway Tint, Narasimhan Kothandaraman, Fabian Yap, Keith Godfrey, Yung Seng Lee, Kok Hian Tan, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap Seng Chong, Mary F.F. Chong, Johan G. Eriksson & David Cameron-Smith, 2022, International Journal of Obesity, 46(6), 1128-1137
DOI: 10.1038/s41366-022-01085-4
Type: article
Association of shorter leucocyte telomere length with risk of frailty
Vasiliki Bountziouka, Christopher P. Nelson, Veryan Codd, Qingning Wang, Crispin Musicha, Elias Allara, Stephen K. Kaptoge, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Adam S. Butterworth, John R. Thompson, Elizabeth Curtis, Angela M. Wood, John N. Danesh, Nicholas Harvey, Cyrus Cooper & Nilesh J. Samani, 2022, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 13(1), 1741-1751
DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.12971
Type: article
Nutritional interventions to ameliorate the effect of endocrine disruptors on human reproductive health: A semi-structured review from FIGO
Gillian A Corbett, Sadhbh Lee, Tracey J Woodruff, Mark Hanson, Moshe Hod, Anne Marie Charlesworth, Linda Giudice, Jeanne Conry & Fionnuala M McAuliffe, 2022, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 157(3), 489-501
DOI: 10.1002/ijgo.14126
Type: review
Persistence of immunogenicity after seven COVID-19 vaccines given as third dose boosters following two doses of ChAdOx1 nCov-19 or BNT162b2 in the UK: three month analyses of the COV-BOOST trial
Xinxue Liu, Alasdair P S Munro, Shuo Feng, Leila Janani, Parvinder K Aley, Gavin Babbage, David Baxter, Marcin Bula, Katrina Cathie, Krishna Chatterjee, Wanwisa Dejnirattisai, Kate Dodd, Yvanne Enever, Ehsaan Qureshi, Anna L Goodman, Christopher A Green, Linda Harndahl, John Haughney, Alexander Hicks, Agatha A van der Klaauw, Jonathan Kwok, Vincenzo Libri, Martin J Llewelyn, Alastair C McGregor, Angela M Minassian, Patrick Moore, Mehmood Mughal, Yama F Mujadidi, Kyra Holliday, Orod Osanlou, Rostam Osanlou, Daniel R Owens, Mihaela Pacurar, Adrian Palfreeman, Daniel Pan, Tommy Rampling, Karen Regan, Stephen Saich, Teona Serafimova, Dinesh Saralaya, Gavin R Screaton, Sunil Sharma, Ray Sheridan, Ann Sturdy, Piyada Supasa, Emma C Thomson, Shirley Todd, Chris Twelves, Robert C Read & Saul N Faust, 2022, Journal of Infection, 84(6), 795-813
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2022.04.018
Type: article
Update of the fracture risk prediction tool FRAX: A systematic review of potential cohorts and analysis plan
Lisbeth Vandenput, H. Johansson, E. V. McCloskey, E. Liu, Kristina E. Akesson, F.A. Anderson, R. Azagra, C.L. Bager, Charlotte Beaudart, H.A. Bischoff-Ferrari, E. Biver, Olivier Bruyère, J.A. Cauley, J.R. Center, R. Chapulat, C. Christiansen, Cyrus Cooper, Carolyn J. Crandall, Steven Cummings, J.A.P. da Silva, Bess Dawson-Hughes, A. Diez-Pérez, Alyssa B. Dufour, J.A. Eisman, Petra J.M. Elders, S. Ferrari, Y. Fujita, S. Fujiwara, C.C. Glüer, I. Goldstein, D. Goltzman, V. Gudnason, J. Hall, D. Hans, M. Hoff, Rosemary J. Hollick, Martijn Huisman, M. Iki, S. Ish-Shalom, G. Jones, M.K. Karlsson, Sundeep Khosla, D.P. Kiel, W-P Koh, F. Koromani, M.A. Kotowicz, H. Kroger, T. Kwok, Olivier Lamy, Arnulf Langhammer, Bagher Larijani, Kurt Lippuner, D Mellström, Thomas Merlijn, A. Nordstrom, P. Nordstrom, T.W. O'Neill, B. Obermayer-Piestch, Nicholas Harvey, J A. Kanis, C. Ohlsson, E.S. Orwoll, J.A. Pasco, F. Rivadeneira, B. Schei, A.M. Schott, E.J. Shiroma, K. Siggeirsdottir, E.M. Simonsick, E. Sornay-Rendu, R. Sund, K.M.A. Swart, P. Szulc, J. Tamaki, D.J. Torgerson, N.M. Van Schoor, T.P. van Staa, J.C. Vilas, N.J Wareham, N.C. Wright, N. Yoshimura, M.C. Zillikens, M. Zwart, M. Lorentzon & W.D. Leslie, 2022, Osteoporosis International, 33(10), 2103-2136
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-022-06435-6
Type: review
Dietary factors and low grade inflammation in relation to overweight and obesity revisited
Philip C. Calder, 2022, British Journal of Nutrition, 127(10), 1455 - 1457
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114522000782
Type: letterEditorial
Multicenter Randomized Trial of Methylprednisolone vs. Intravenous Immunoglobulins to Treat the Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome-Temporally Associated With SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS): Protocol of the Swissped RECOVERY Trial
Tatjana Welzel, Nina Schöbi, Maya C André, Douggl G N Bailey, Geraldine Blanchard-Rohner, Michael Buettcher, Serge Grazioli, Henrik Koehler, Marie-Helene Perez, Johannes Trück, Federica Vanoni, Petra Zimmermann, Andrew Atkinson, Carlos Sanchez, Elizabeth Whittaker, Saul N Faust, Julia A Bielicki & Luregn J Schlapbach, 2022, Frontiers in Pediatrics, 10
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2022.905046
Type: article