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
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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

Associations of osteoporosis and sarcopenia with frailty and multimorbidity among participants of the Hertfordshire Cohort Study
Faidra Laskou, Nicholas Fuggle, Harnish Patel, Karen A Jameson, Cyrus Cooper & Elaine Dennison, 2021, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle
DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.12870
Type: article
Role of the microbiome in regulating bone metabolism and susceptibility to osteoporosis
Owen Cronin, Susan Lanham-New, Bernard M. Corfe, Celia L. Gregson, Andrea L. Darling, Kourosh R Ahmadi, Philippa S. Gibson, Jonathan H. Tobias, Kate Ward, Maria H. Traka, Megan Rossi, Claire Williams, Nicholas Harvey, Cyrus Cooper, Kevin Whelan, André G. Uitterlinden, Paul W. O'Toole, Claes Ohlsson, Juliet E. Compston & Stuart H. Ralston, 2021, Calcified Tissue International
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-021-00924-2
Type: article
Spirometric phenotypes from early childhood to young adulthood
Gang Wang, Jenny Hallberg, Dimitrios Charalampopoulos, Maribel Casas Sanahuja, Robab Breyer-Kohansal, Arnulf Langhammer, Raquel Granell, Judith M Vonk, Annemiek Mian, Núria Olvera, Lisbeth Mølgaard Laustsen, Eva Rönmark, Alicia Abellan, Alvar Agusti, Syed Hasan Arshad, Anna Bergström, H Marike Boezen, Marie-Kathrin Breyer, Otto Burghuber, Anneli Clea Bolund, Adnan Custovic, Graham Devereux, Gavin C Donaldson, Liesbeth Duijts, Ana Esplugues, Rosa Faner, Ferran Ballester, Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Ulrike Gehring, Sadia Haider, Sylvia Hartl, Helena Backman, John W Holloway, Gerard H Koppelman, Aitana Lertxundi, Turid Lingaas Holmen, Lesley Lowe, Sara M Mensink-Bout, Clare S Murray, Graham Roberts, Linnea Hedman, Vivi Schlünssen, Torben Sigsgaard, Angela Simpson, Jordi Sunyer, Maties Torrent, Stephen Turner, Maarten Van den Berge, Roel C H Vermeulen & Sigrid Anna Aalberg Vikjord, 2021, ERJ Open Research, 7(4)
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00457-2021
Type: article
Determinants of cord blood adipokines and association with neonatal abdominal adipose tissue distribution
Karen Mei Ling Tan, Mya Thway Tint, Navin Michael, Fabian Yap, Yap-Seng Chong, Kok Hian Tan, Keith Godfrey, Anis Larbi, Yung Seng Lee, Shiao-Yng Chan, Marielle V. Fortier, Johan G. Eriksson & Neerja Karnani, 2021, International Journal of Obesity
DOI: 10.1038/s41366-021-00975-3
Type: article
Epigenome-wide association study of sarcopenia
Elie Antoun, Emma Garratt, Andrea Taddei, Mark Burton, Sheila Barton, Philip Titcombe, Leo Westbury, Alicia Baczynska, Eugenia Migliavacca, Jerome N. Feige, Holly Emma Syddall, Elaine Dennison, Richard Dodds, Helen Roberts, Peter Richardson, Avan A. Sayer, Sarah Shaw, Cyrus Cooper, Joanna D. Holbrook, Harnish Patel, Keith Godfrey & Karen Lillycrop, 2021, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 13(1), 240 - 253
DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.12876
Type: article
Improving uptake of vaccines in pregnancy: A service evaluation of an antenatal vaccination clinic at a tertiary hospital in the UK
Kate Ralph, Robert B. Dorey, R Rowe & Christine E Jones, 2021, Midwifery, 105
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2021.103222
Type: article
The role of extracellular vesicles as a shared disease mechanism contributing to multimorbidity in patients with COPD
Laura V. Reid, C. Mirella Spalluto, Alastair Watson, Karl J. Staples & Tom M.A. Wilkinson, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology, 12
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.754004
Type: review