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

The clinical implications of Aspergillus Fumigatus sensitization in difficult-to-treat asthma patients
Heena Mistry, Hilda Maria Ajsivinac Soberanis, Mohammad Aref Kyyaly, Adnan Azim, Clair Barber, Deborah Knight, Colin Newell, Hans Michael Haitchi, Tom Wilkinson, Peter Howarth, Grégory Seumois, Pandurangan Vijayanand, S Hasan Arshad & Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy, 2021, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 9(12), 4254-4267.e10
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaip.2021.08.038
Type: article
The effect of long chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on muscle mass and function in sarcopenia: A scoping systematic review and meta-analysis
Julia K. Bird, Barbara Troesch, Ines Warnke & Philip Calder, 2021, Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, 46, 73-86
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2021.10.011
Type: article
The impact of COVID-19 on acute non-invasive ventilation services
2021, Respirology, 26(12), 1106-1109
DOI: 10.1111/resp.14156
Type: letterEditorial
Developing an integrated microsimulation model for the impact of fiscal policies on child health in Europe: the example of childhood obesity in Italy
Davide Rasella, Lorenzo Richiardi, Nicolai Brachowicz, H. Xavier Jara, Mark Hanson, Delia Boccia, Matteo G. Richiardi & Costanza Pizzi, 2021, BMC Medicine, 19(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-021-02155-6
Type: article
Exercise training induces a shift in extracellular redox status with alterations in the pulmonary and systemic redox landscape in asthma
Anna Freeman, Doriana Cellura, Magdalena Minnion, Bernadette Fernandez, C. Mirella Spalluto, Denny Levett, Andrew Bates, Timothy Wallis, Alastair Watson, Sandra Jack, Karl J. Staples, Mike P. Grocott, Martin Feelisch & Tom M.A. Wilkinson, 2021, Antioxidants, 10(12)
DOI: 10.3390/antiox10121926
Type: article
Association between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and impaired cardiac sympathetic/parasympathetic balance in subjects with and without type 2 diabetes - the Cooperative Health Research in South Tyrol (CHRIS)-NAFLD Substudy
Giovanni Targher, Alessandro Mantovani, Christoph Grander, Luisa Foco, Benedetta Motta, Christopher Byrne, Peter Paul Pramstaller & Herbert Tilg, 2021, Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 31(12), 3464-3473
DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2021.08.037
Type: article
Lower airway clinical outcome measures for use in primary ciliary dyskinesia research
Florian Gahleitner, James Thompson, Claire Jackson, Jana, Franziska Hueppe, Laura Behan, Eleonora Dehlink, Myrofora Goutaki, Florian S. Halbeisen, Ana Paula Lima de Queiroz, Guillaume Thouvenin, Claudia E. Kuehni, Philipp Latzin, Jane Lucas & Bruna Rubbo, 2021, ERJ Open Research, 7(4)
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00320-2021
Type: article