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
Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Dietary nitrate supplementation to enhance exercise capacity in hypoxic COPD: EDEN-OX, a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised cross-over study
Matthew J Pavitt, Adam Lewis, Sara C Buttery, Bernadette O Fernandez, Monika Mikus-Lelinska, Winston A S Banya, Martin Feelisch, Michael I Polkey & Nicholas S Hopkinson, 2021, Thorax
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217147
Type: article
Food allergy across the globe
Vanitha Sampath, Elissa M. Abrams, Bahman Adlou, Cezmi Akdis, Mübeccel Akdis, Helen A. Brough, Susan Chan, Pantipa Chatchatee, R. Sharon Chinthrajah, Renata Rodrigues Cocco, Antoine Deschildre, Philippe Eigenmann, Cesar Galvan, Ruchi Gupta, Elham Hossny, Jennifer J. Koplin, Gideon Lack, Michael Levin, Lynette P. Shek, Mika Makela, David Mendoza-Hernandez, Antonella Muraro, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulous, Ruby Pawankar, Kirsten P. Perrett, Graham Roberts, Cansin Sackesen, Hugh Sampson, Mimi L.K. Tang, Alkis Togias, Carina Venter, Christopher Michael Warren, Lisa M. Wheatley, Gary W.K. Wong, Kirsten Beyer, Kari C. Nadeau & Harald Renz, 2021, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 148(6), 1347-1364
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.10.018
Type: review
Infection control in the home: a qualitative study exploring perceptions and experiences of adhering to protective behaviours in the home during the COVID-19 pandemic
Kate Morton, Lauren Towler, Julia Groot, Sascha Miller, Benjamin Ainsworth, James Denison-Day, Cathy Rice, Jennifer Bostock, Merlin Willcox, Paul Little & Lucy Yardley, 2021, BMJ Open, 11(12)
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056161
Type: article
Mycotic aneurysm presenting as hip pain and severe anaemia
Mildred A Iro, Christine E Jones, Saul N Faust, Iain D C Wilson, Stephen J Baxter, Mark Pemberton, Trevor Richens & Sanjay Valabh Patel, 2021, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 106(12), 1211
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-321632
Type: article
Older individual’s perceptions of appetite, its loss, influencing factors and adaptions to poor appetite. A qualitative study
Natalie Cox, Leanne Morrison, Sian Robinson, Helen Roberts & Kinda Ibrahim, 2021, Appetite, 167
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105609
Type: article
Proposed anti-inflammatory diet reduces inflammation in compliant, weight-stable patients with rheumatoid arthritis in a randomized controlled crossover trial
Erik Hulander, Linnea Bärebring, Anna Turesson Wadell, Inger Gjertsson, Philip C Calder, Anna Winkvist & Helen M Lindqvist, 2021, The Journal of nutrition, 151(12), 3856-3864
DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxab313
Type: article
A phase IV, multi-centre, randomized clinical trial comparing two pertussis-containing vaccines in pregnant women in England and vaccine responses in their infants
Christine E Jones, Anna Calvert , Jo Southern , Mary Matheson , Nick Andrews , Asma Khalil , Hannah Cuthbertson , Bassam Hallis , Anna England , Paul T. Heath & Elizabeth Miller, 2021, BMC Medicine, 19(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-021-02005-5
Type: article