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

Professor Graham Roberts

Prof in Paed. 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 Paediatric Immunology & Infect
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Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Routine molecular point-of-care testing for SARS-CoV-2 reduces hospital-acquired COVID-19
Robert Livingstone, Hlaing Lin, Nathan Brendish, Stephen Poole, Florina Borca, Alex Tanner, Trevor Smith , Matt Stammers & Tristan Clark, 2022, Journal of Infection, 84(4), 558-565
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2022.01.034
Type: article
Serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D and the risk of low muscle mass in young and middle-aged Korean adults
Yejin Kim, Yoosoo Chang, Seungho Ryu, In Young Cho, Min-Jung Kwon, Sarah H Wild & Christopher Byrne, 2022, European journal of endocrinology, 186(4), 477-487
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-21-1229
Type: article
The Influence of bariatric (metabolic) surgery on blood polyunsaturated fatty acids: A systematic review
Aphra-Lily O. Middleton, James P. Byrne & Philip Calder, 2022, Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, 48, 121-140
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2022.02.001
Type: article
Potential blood DNA methylation biomarker genes for diagnosis of liver fibrosis in patients with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
QF Sun, LJ Tang, MJ Wang , PW Zhu, YY Li, HL Ma, OY Huang, L Hong, G Li, Christopher Byrne, G Targher, WY Liu, Y Lu, JG Ding & MH Zheng, 2022, Frontiers in Medicine, 9
DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.864570
Type: article
Associations between maternal distress during early life periods and offspring respiratory infections and allergic outcomes
Hui Xing Lau, Michelle Zhi Ling Kee, Qai Ven Yap, Elizabeth Huiwen Tham, Yiong Huak Chan, Anne Eng Neo Goh, Oon Hoe Teoh, Johan G. Eriksson, Keith Godfrey, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap-Seng Chong, Jerry KY Chan, Hugo van Bever, Bee Wah Lee, Lynette Pei-Chi Shek , Michael J. Meaney & Evelyn Xiu-Ling Loo, 2022, Frontiers in Pediatrics, 10
DOI: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35433563/
Type: article
Response to Singh and Singh
Philip Calder, 2022, Nutrition & Diabetes, 12(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41387-022-00195-2
Type: letterEditorial
MicroRNAs - a promising tool for asthma diagnosis and severity assessment: a systematic review
Mohammed Aref Kyyaly, Elena Vladimirovna Vorobeva, Dilini M Kothalawala, Wei Chern Gavin Fong, Peijun He, Collin L Sones, Mohammad Al-Zahrani, Tilman Sanchez-Elsner, Syed Hasan Arshad & Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy, 2022, Journal of Personalized Medicine, 12(4)
DOI: 10.3390/jpm12040543
Type: article