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
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

Metabolic messengers: tumour necrosis factor
Jaswinder K. Sethi & Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, 2021, Nature Metabolism, 3(10), 1302-1312
DOI: 10.1038/s42255-021-00470-z
Type: review
Powered respirators are effective, sustainable, and cost-effective personal protective equipment for SARS-CoV-2
Alasdair Munro, Jacqui Prieto, Emmanouil Mentzakis, Mohammed AM Mansour, Nitin Mahobia, Peter Baker, Sarah Herbert, Trevor Smith, Matthew Hine, Joann Hall, Angie McClarren, Mike Davidson, Julie Brooks, Jane Fisher, David Griffiths, Hywel Morgan, Corrado Giulietti, Saul Faust & Paul Elkington, 2021, Frontiers in Medical Technology, 3(October 2021), 1-13
DOI: 10.3389/fmedt.2021.729658
Type: article
Elevated blood pressure, antihypertensive medications and bone health in the population: revisiting old hypotheses and exploring future research directions
Dexter Canoy, Nicholas Harvey, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Cyrus Cooper, Haakon E Meyer, B.O. Asvold, M. Nazarzadeh & Kazem Rahimi, 2021, Osteoporosis International
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-021-06190-0
Type: article
Interpregnancy weight gain and childhood obesity: analysis of a UK population-based cohort
Nida Ziauddeen, Jonathan Huang, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Roderick, Keith Godfrey & Nisreen Alwan, 2021, International Journal of Obesity
DOI: 10.1038/s41366-021-00979-z
Type: article
Immunogenicity and safety of a 3-antigen hepatitis B vaccine vs a single-antigen hepatitis B vaccine
Timo Vesikari, Adam Finn, Pierre Van Damme, Isabel Leroux-Roels, Geert Leroux-Roels, Nathan Segall, Azhar Toma, Gerald Vallieres, Ronnie Aronson, Dennis Reich, Samir Arora, Peter J. Ruane, Clancy L. Cone, Michael Manns, Catherine Cosgrove, Saul N. Faust, Maheshi N. Ramasamy, Nathalie Machluf, Johanna N. Spaans, Bebi Yassin-Rajkumar, David Anderson, Vlad Popovic & Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, 2021, JAMA Network Open, 4(10), e2128652
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.28652
Type: article
The causes and impact of crisis for people with Parkinson’s Disease: a patient and carer perspective
Sarah Fearn, Sandra, Martins Bartolomeu Pires, Veena, Ashok Agarwal, Helen Roberts, John Spreadbury & Christopher Kipps, 2021, Journal of Parkinson's Disease, 11(4), 1935-1945
DOI: 10.3233/JPD-212641
Type: article
The Experiences of Treatment Burden in People with Parkinson's Disease and Their Caregivers
Qian Yue Tan, Natalie Cox, Stephen Lim, Laura Coutts, Simon Fraser, Helen Roberts & Kinda Ibrahim, 2021, Journal of Parkinson's Disease, 11(4), 1597-1617
DOI: 10.3233/JPD-212612
Type: article