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
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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

Public attitudes to a human challenge study with SARS-CoV-2: a mixed-methods study
Caroline Barker, Katharine Collet, Diane Gbesemete, Maria Piggin, Daniella Watson, Philippa Pristerà, Wendy Lawrence, Emma Smith, Michael Bahrami-Hessari, Halle Johnson, Katherine Baker, Ambar Qavi, Carmel McGrath, Christopher Chiu, Robert C Read & Helen Ward, 2022, Wellcome Open Research , 7, 49
DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17516.1
Type: article
Ultrasound shear modulus and thickness of lateral abdominal muscles in different contractile states in relation to self-reported hip/groin problems in youth soccer players
Pawel Linek, Nadine Carmella Licia Booysen & Maria Stokes, 2022, Journal of Human Kinetics, 81(1), 97-108
DOI: 10.2478/hukin-2022-0009
Type: article
Contextualising individual, household and community level factors associated with sugar-sweetened beverage intake and screen time in Soweto, South Africa
Alessandra Prioreschi, Lisa J. Ware, Catherine E. Draper, Stephen Lye & Shane A. Norris, 2022, Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition
DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2022.2032901
Type: article
Predicting pulmonary function from the analysis of voice: a machine learning approach
Md. Zahangir Alam, Albino Simonetti, Raffaele Brillantino, Nick Tayler, Chris Grainge, Pandula Siribaddana, S. A. Reza Nouraei, James Batchelor, M. Sohel Rahman, Eliane V. Mancuzo, John W. Holloway, Judith A. Holloway & Faisal I. Rezwan, 2022, Frontiers in Digital Health, 4
DOI: 10.3389/fdgth.2022.750226
Type: article
DNA methylation and asthma acquisition during adolescence and post-adolescence, an epigenome-wide longitudinal study
Aniruddha Rathod, Hongmei Zhang, Syed Hasan Arshad, Susan Ewart, Caroline L. Relton, Wilfried Karmaus & John W. Holloway, 2022, Journal of Personalized Medicine, 12(2), 202
DOI: 10.3390/jpm12020202
Type: article
Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of virtual group exercise for older adults delivered by trained volunteers: the ImPACt study protocol
Stephen Eu Ruen Lim, Samantha Meredith, Samantha Agnew, Esther Clift, Kinda Ibrahim & Helen Roberts, 2022, BMJ Open, 12(2)
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052631
Type: article
Foods to deliver immune-supporting nutrients
Philip Calder, 2022, Current Opinion in Food Science, 43, 136-145
DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2021.12.006
Type: review