Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Read

Chair of 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

Professor Cyrus Cooper

Prof 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 In 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 Enterprise
Connect with Keith

Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Hasan Arshad

Prof in Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Connect with Hasan

Email: S.H.Arshad@soton.ac.uk

Dr Stephen Wootton PhD FAfN OBE

Associate Professor
Connect with Stephen

Email: S.A.Wootton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Graham Roberts

Prof in Paed. Allergy & Resp. Medicine
Connect with Graham

Email: g.c.roberts@soton.ac.uk

Professor Saul Faust MBBS, PhD, FRCPCH, FFPM(Hon), FHEA, OBE

Professor Paediatric Immunology & Infect
Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Placental 13C-DHA metabolism and relationship with maternal BMI, glycemia and birthweight
Oliver C. Watkins, Preben Selvam, Reshma Appukuttan Pillai, Victoria, Kathryn Bonnell Cracknell, Hannah E.J. Yong, Neha Sharma, Amaury Cazenave-Gassiot, Anne K. Bendt, Keith Godfrey, Rohan Lewis, Markus R. Wenk & Shiao-Yng Chan, 2021, Molecular Medicine, 27(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s10020-021-00344-w
Type: article
The immunometabolic roles of various fatty acids in macrophages and lymphocytes
Jose Cesar Rosa Neto, Philip Calder, Rui Curi, Philip Newsholme, Jaswinder K. Sethi & Loreana S. Silveira, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(16)
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22168460
Type: review
SARS-CoV-2 infections in people with primary ciliary dyskinesia
2021, European Respiratory Journal, 58(2)
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.04548-2020
Type: letterEditorial
The role of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae biofilms in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Jake R Weeks, Karl J. Staples, C. Mirella Spalluto, Alastair Watson & Tom M. Wilkinson, 2021, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 11
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.720742
Type: review
Engagement with daily testing instead of self-isolating in contacts of confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2: a qualitative analysis
Sarah Denford, Alex Martin, Nicola Love, Derren Ready, Isabel Oliver, Richard Amlôt, Lucy Yardley & James Rubin, 2021, Frontiers in Public Health, 9
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.714041
Type: article
Integrated transcriptomic analysis of human tuberculosis granulomas and a biomimetic model identifies therapeutic targets
Michaela T. Reichmann, Liku Bekele Tezera, Andres Vallejo Pulido, Milica Vukmirovic, Rui Xiao, James Reynolds, Sanjay Jogai, Susan Wilson, Benjamin Marshall, Mark Jones, Alasdair Leslie, Jeanine M. D'Armiento, Naftali Kaminski, Marta Polak & Paul Elkington, 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation, 131(15), 1-16
DOI: 10.1172/JCI148136
Type: article
International BEAT-PCD consensus statement for infection prevention and control for primary ciliary dyskinesia in collaboration with ERN-LUNG PCD Core Network and patient representatives
2021, ERJ Open Research, 7(3)
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00301-2021
Type: article