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
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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…
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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

Distribution of high-sensitivity troponin taken without conventional clinical indications in critical care patients and its association with mortality
Jonathan Hinton, Augustine Maclyn, Lavinia Gabara, Mark Mariathas, Rick Allan, Florina Borca, Zoe Nicholas, Ryan Beecham, Neil Gillett, Chun Shing Kwok, Paul Cook, Michael P. W. Grocott, Mamas Mamas & Nick Curzen, 2021, Critical Care Medicine, Publish ahead of print, 1451-1459
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005024
Type: article
Influence of maternal lifestyle and diet on perinatal DNA methylation signatures associated with childhood arterial stiffness at 8 to 9 years
Robert Murray, Negusse Kitaba, Elie Antoun, Philip Titcombe, Sheila Barton, Cyrus Cooper, Hazel M. Inskip, Graham C. Burdge, Pamela A. Mahon, John Deanfield, Julian P. Halcox, Elizabeth A. Ellins, Jennifer Bryant, Charles Peebles, Karen Lillycrop, Keith M. Godfrey, Mark A. Hanson & Epi Gen Consortium, 2021, Hypertension, 78(3), 787-800
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.17396
Type: article
Lupus, vaccinations and COVID-19: what we know now
Alice Mason, Himashi Anver, May Lwin, Christopher Holroyd, Saul N. Faust & Christopher J. Edwards, 2021, Lupus, 30(10), 1541-1552
DOI: 10.1177/09612033211024355
Type: review
Meconium Ileus due to GUCY2C gene mutations in three unrelated South Indian families
Sneha Varkki, Antony Terance Benjamin, Rekha Athiyarath, Sumita Danda, Ravikumar Sowmya & Gary Connett, 2021, Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 20(5), e84-e86
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf.2021.03.023
Type: article
Neurological manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalised children and adolescents in the UK: a prospective national cohort study
Stephen TJ Ray, Omar Abdel-Mannan, Mario Sa, Charlotte Fuller, Greta K Wood, Karen Pysden, Michael Yoong, Helen McCullagh, David Scott, Martin McMahon, Naomi Thomas, Micheal Taylor, Illingworth Marjorie, Nadine McCrea, Victoria Davies, William Whitehouse, Sameer Zuberi, Keira Guthrie, Evangeline Wassmer, Nikit Shah, Mark R Baker, Sangeeta Tiwary, Hui Jeen Tan, Uma Varma, Dipak Ram, Shivaram Avula, Noelle Enright, Jane Hassell, Amy Ross Russell, Ram Kumar, Rachel E Mulholland, Sarah Pett, Ian Galea, Rhys H Thomas, Ming Lim, Yael Hacohen, Tom Solomon, Michael J Griffiths, Benedict D Michael & Rachel Kneen, 2021, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
DOI: 10.1016/S2352-4642(21)00193-0
Type: article
Placental polar lipid composition is associated with placental gene expression and neonatal body composition
Olaf Uhl, Rohan Lewis, Birgit Hirschmugl, Sarah Crozier, Hazel Inskip, Antonio Gázquez, Nicholas Harvey, Cyrus Cooper, Gernot Desoye, Berthold Koletzko, Christian Wadsack, Hans Demmelmair & Keith Godfrey, 2021, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, 1866(9)
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2021.158971
Type: article
Prevalence and early-life risk factors of school age allergic multimorbidity - the EuroPrevall-iFAAM birth cohort
Sigurveig T Sigurdardottir, Kristjan Jonasson, Michael Clausen, Kristin Lilja Bjornsdottir, Sigridur Erla Sigurdardottir, Graham Roberts, Kate Grimshaw, Nikolaos G Papadopoulos, Paraskevi Xepapadaki, Ana Fiandor, Santiago Quirce, Aline B Sprikkelman, Lies Hulshof, Marek L Kowalski, Marcin Kurowiski, Ruta Dubakiene, Odilija Rudzeviciene, Johanna Bellach, Songül Yürek, Andreas Reich, Sina Maria Erhard, Philip Couch, Montserrat Fernandez Rivas, Ronald van Ree, Clare Mills, Linus Grabenhenrich, Kirsten Beyer & Thomas Keil, 2021, Allergy, 76(9), 2855-2865
DOI: 10.1111/all.14857
Type: article