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
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

Resources in women's social networks for food shopping are more strongly associated with better dietary quality than people: a cross-sectional study.
Calum J Shand, Sarah Crozier, Ivaylo Vassilev, Daniel J Penn-newman, Preeti Dhuria, Cyrus Cooper, Anne Rogers, Janis Baird & Christina Vogel, 2021, Social Science & Medicine, 284
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114228
Type: article
Trajectories of systolic blood pressure in children: risk factors and cardiometabolic correlates
Wen Lun Yuan, Michael S. Kramer, Navin Michael, Suresh Sadananthan, Tint Mya, Ling-Wei Chen, Wei Wei Pang, Sendhil Velan, Keith Godfrey, Yap-Seng Chong, Mary Foong-Fong Chong, Jonathan TL Choo, L.H. Ling, Johan G. Eriksson & Yung Seng Lee, 2021, Journal of Pediatrics, 236, 86-94.e6
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.05.027
Type: article
Vitamin D and COVID-19 disease: don’t believe everything you read in the papers! Reply to Dr William B. Grant.
Nicholas Harvey, Cyrus Cooper & Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, 2021, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 33(9), 2639-2641
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-021-01957-1
Type: letterEditorial
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing has greater prognostic value than sarcopenia in oesophago-gastric cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy and surgical resection
Malcolm A. West, William Ca Baker, Saqib Rahman, Alicia Munro, Sandra Jack, Michael Pw Grocott, Timothy J. Underwood, Denny Zh Levett & Stephen Wootton, 2021, Journal of Surgical Oncology, 124(8), 1306-1316
DOI: 10.1002/jso.26652
Type: article
Diagnostic accuracy of Loop mediated isothermal amplification coupled to Nanopore sequencing (LamPORE) for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection at scale in symptomatic and asymptomatic populations.
Anetta Ptasinska, Celina M. Whalley, Andrew Bosworth, Charlotte Poxon, Claire Bryer, Nicholas Machin, Seden Grippon, Emma L. Wise, Bryony Armson, Emma L.A. Howson, Alice Goring, Gemma Snell, Jade Forster, Christopher Mattocks, Sarah May Frampton, Rebecca Anderson, David Cleary, Joe Parker, Konstantinos Boukas, Nichola Graham, Doriana Cellura, Emma Garratt, Rachel Skilton, Hana Sheldon, Alla Collins, Nusreen Ahmad-Saeed, Simon Friar, Daniel Burns, Tim Williams, Keith M. Godfrey, Zandra Deans, Angela Douglas, Sue Hill, Michael Kidd, Deborah Porter, Stephen P. Kidd, Nicholas J. Cortes, Veronica L. Fowler, Tony Williams, Alex G. Richter & Andrew D. Beggs, 2021, Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 27(9), 1348.e1-1348.e7
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2021.04.008
Type: article
Human non-CpG methylation patterns display both tissue-specific and inter-individual differences suggestive of underlying function
Philip Titcombe, Robert Murray, Matthew Hewitt, Elie Antoun, Cyrus Cooper, Hazel Inskip, Joanna D Holbrook, Keith Godfrey, Karen Lillycrop, Mark Hanson & Sheila Barton, 2021, Epigenetics
DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2021.1950990
Type: article
A feasibility trial of a digital mindfulness-based intervention to improve asthma-related quality of life for primary care patients with asthma
Ben Ainsworth, Sabina Stanescu, Beth Stuart, Daniel Russell, Megan Liddiard, Ratko Djukanovic & Mike Thomas, 2021, Journal of Behavioral Medicine
DOI: 10.1007/s10865-021-00249-3
Type: article