Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Read

Chair in 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

Emeritus Professor Cyrus Cooper

Professor of 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 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…
Connect with Ratko

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

Nonlinear effects of environment on childhood asthma susceptibility
Dilini M. Kothalawala, Veronique B. N. Weiss, Latha Kadalayil, Raquel Granell, John A. Curtin, Clare S. Murray, Angela Simpson, Adnan Custovic, William J. Tapper, Faisal I. Rezwan, Syed Hasan Arshad & John W. Holloway, 2022, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, 33(4), e13777
DOI: 10.1111/pai.v33.4
Type: article
Comparison of UK paediatric SARS-CoV-2 admissions across the first and second pandemic waves
Olivia V. Swann, Louisa Pollock, Karl A. Holden, Alasdair P.S. Munro, Aisleen Bennett, Thomas C. Williams, Lance Turtle, Cameron J. Fairfield, Thomas M. Drake, Saul N. Faust, Ian P. Sinha, Damian Roland, Elizabeth Whittaker, Shamez N. Ladhani, Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam, Michelle Girvan, Chloe Donohue, Cara Donegan, Rebecca G. Spencer, Hayley E. Hardwick, Peter J.M. Openshaw, J. Kenneth Baillie, Ewen M. Harrison, Annemarie B. Docherty & Malcolm G. Semple, 2022, Pediatric Research
DOI: 10.1038/s41390-022-02052-5
Type: article
Real-time monitoring of epithelial barrier function by impedance spectroscopy in a microfluidic platform
Joao, Cabaco Fernandes, Nikita Karra, Joel Bowring, Riccardo Reale, Jonathan James, Theresa Pell, Cornelia Blume, Wendy Rowan, Donna Davies, Emily Swindle & Hywel Morgan, 2022, Lab on a Chip
DOI: 10.1039/D1LC01046H
Type: article
Predicting pancreatic cancer in the UK Biobank cohort using polygenic risk scores and diabetes mellitus
Shreya Sharma, William J. Tapper, Andrew Collins & Zaed Z.R. Hamady, 2022, Gastroenterology, 162(6), 1665-1674.e2
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2022.01.016
Type: article
Improving physical function of patients following intensive care unit admission (EMPRESS): protocol of a randomised controlled feasibility trial
Rebecca Cusack, Andrew Bates, Kay Mitchell, Zoe van Willigen, Linda Denehy, Nicholas Hart, Ahilanandan Dushianthan, Isabel Reading, Maria Chorozoglou, Gordon Sturmey, Iain Davey & Michael Grocott, 2022, BMJ Open, 12(4), e055285
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055285
Type: article
Modelling wheezing spells identifies phenotypes with different outcomes and genetic associates
Sadia Haider, Raquel Granell, John Curtin, Sara Fontanella, Alex Cucco, Stephen Turner, Angela Simpson, Graham Roberts, Clare S Murray, John W Holloway, Graham Devereux, Paul Cullinan, Syed Hasan Arshad & Adnan Custovic, 2022, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 205(8), 883-893
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202108-1821OC
Type: article
Estimating the effects of lockdown timing on COVID-19 cases and deaths in England: a counterfactual modelling study
Kellyn F. Arnold, Mark S. Gilthorpe, Nisreen Alwan, Alison J. Heppenstall, Georgia D. Tomova, Martin McKee & Peter W.G. Tennant, 2022, PLoS ONE, 17(4 April)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263432
Type: article