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
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 (KEE) & Professor of Epidemiology & Human Development
Connect with Keith

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
Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Digital tools to support the maintenance of physical activity in people with long-term conditions: A scoping review
Paul Clarkson, Aoife Stephenson, Chloe Grimmett, Katherine Cook, Carol Clark, Paul E Muckelt, Philip O’gorman, Zoe Saynor, Jo Adams, Maria Stokes & Suzanne Mcdonough, 2022, Digital Health, 8
DOI: 10.1177/20552076221089778
Type: review
Effect of perindopril or leucine on physical performance in older people with sarcopenia: the LACE randomized controlled trial
2022, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 13(2), 858-871
DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.12934
Type: article
Lessons from long COVID: working with patients to design better research
Nisreen Alwan, 2022, Nature Reviews Immunology, 22(4), 201-202
DOI: 10.1038/s41577-022-00692-6
Type: letterEditorial
Management of patients at very high risk of osteoporotic fractures through sequential treatments
Elizabeth M. Curtis, Jean-Yves Reginster, Nasser M. Al-Daghri, Emmanuel Biver, Maria-Luisa Brandi, Etienne Cavalier, Peyman Hadji, Philippe Halbout, Nicholas C. Harvey, Mickaël Hiligsmann, M. Kassim Javaid, J.A, Kanis, Jean-Marc Kaufman, Olivier Lamy, Radmila Matijevic, Adolfo Diez-Perez, Regis Pierre Rademecker, Mario Miguel  Rosa, Thierry Thomas, Friederike Thomasius, Mila Vlaskovska, Rene Rizzoli & Cyrus Cooper, 2022, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 34(4), 695-714
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-022-02100-4
Type: review
Preconception care in primary care
Danielle Schoenaker, Anne Connolly & Judith Stephenson, 2022, British Journal of General Practice, 72(717), 152
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp22X718853
Type: letterEditorial
Preterm birth during the COVID‐19 pandemic
LV Marino, N Collaço, MJ Johnson & AS Darlington, 2022, Acta Paediatrica, 111(4), 772-773
DOI: 10.1111/apa.16229
Type: article
Reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification has high accuracy for detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in saliva and nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal swabs from asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals
Stephen P. Kidd, Daniel Burns, Bryony Armson, Andrew D. Beggs, Emma L.A. Howson, Anthony Williams, Gemma Snell, Emma L. Wise, Alice Goring, Zoe Vincent-Mistiaen, Seden Grippon, Jason Sawyer, Claire Cassar, David Cross, Thomas Lewis, Scott M Reid, Samantha Rivers, Joe James, Paul Skinner, Ashley Banyard, Kerrie Davies, Anetta Ptasinska, Celina Whalley, Jack Ferguson, Claire Bryer, Charlie Poxon, Andrew Bosworth, Michael Kidd, Alex Richter, Jane Burton, Hannah Love, Sarah Fouch, Claire Tillyer, Amy Sowood, Helen Patrick, Nathan Moore, Michael Andreou, Nick Morant, Rebecca Houghton, Joe Parker, Joanne Slater-Jefferies, Ian Brown, Cosima Gretton, Zandra Deans, Deborah Porter, Nicholas J. Cortes, Angela Douglas, Sue L. Hill, Keith M. Godfrey & Veronica L. Fowler, 2022, Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 24(4), 320-336
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2021.12.007
Type: article