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
Connect with Chris

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
Connect with Hasan

Email: S.H.Arshad@soton.ac.uk

Professor Graham Roberts

Professor of Paediatric Allergy & Resp. Medicine
Connect with Graham

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

A novel radiomics signature based on T2-weighted imaging accurately predicts hepatic inflammation in individuals with biopsy-proven nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a derivation and independent validation study
Zhong-Wei Chen, Huan-Ming Xiao, Xinjian Ye, Kun Liu, Rafael S. Rios, Kenneth I. Zheng, Yi Jin, Giovanni Targher, Christopher Byrne, Junping Shi, Zhihan Yan, Xiao-Ling Chi & Ming-Hua Zheng, 2022, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition, 11(2), 212 - 226
DOI: 10.21037/hbsn-21-23
Type: article
Association of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease with kidney disease
Ting-Yao Wang, Rui-Fang Wang, Zhi-Yin Bu, Giovanni Targher, Christopher Byrne, Dan-Qin Sun & Ming-Hua Zheng, 2022, Nature Reviews Nephrology, 18(4), 259-268
DOI: 10.1038/s41581-021-00519-y
Type: article
Body composition and cardiometabolic risk markers in children of women who took part in a randomized controlled trial of a pre-conceptional nutritional intervention in Mumbai, India
Sirazul Ameen Sahariah, Meera Gandhi, Harsha Chopra, Sarah Kehoe, Matthew, James Johnson, Chiara Di Gravio, Deepak Patkar, Harshad Sane, Patricia Coakley, Aarti H. Karkera, Dattatray S. Bhat, Nick Brown, Barrie Margetts, Alan Jackson, Kalyanaraman Kumaran, Ramesh D. Potdar & Caroline Fall, 2022, Journal of Nutrition, 152(4), 1070-1081
DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxab443
Type: article
Children born during the hunger season are at a higher risk of severe acute malnutrition: findings from a Guinea Sahelian ecological zone in Northern Ghana.
Englebert A. Nonterah, Paul Welaga, Samuel T. Chatio, Sarah Kehoe, Winfred Ofosu, Kate Ward, Keith Godfrey, Abraham R. Oduro & Marie-Louise Newell, 2022, Maternal & Child Nutrition, 18(2)
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.13313
Type: article
Implementing a healthcare professional-supported digital intervention for cancer survivors in primary care: a qualitative process evaluation of Renewed
Jazzine Smith, Rosie Essery, Lucy Yardley, Alison Richardson, Joanna Slodkowska-Barabasz, Claire Foster, Eila Watson, Chloe Grimmett, Adam W. A. Geraghty, Paul Little & Katherine Bradbury, 2022, JMIR Cancer, 8(2)
DOI: 10.2196/36364
Type: article
Temporal progression of mediastinal lymphadenopathy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Tim J M Wallis, Eyjólfur Gudmundsson, Katarina Pontoppidan, Nesrin Mogulkoc, Recep Savaş, Ömer Selim Unat, Katharine Vedwan, Sobana Battison, Fiona J Thompson, Christopher J Brereton, Ben G Marshall, Sophie V Fletcher, Luca Richeldi, Joseph Jacob & Mark G Jones, 2022, European Respiratory Journal, 59(4)
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00024-2022
Type: letterEditorial
Why are there no Strategies for NAFLD?
Christopher Byrne, Philip N Newsome & Mazen Noureddin, 2022, Journal of Hepatology, 76(4), 763-764
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.12.009
Type: letterEditorial