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

Safety, immunogenicity, and reactogenicity of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccines given as fourth-dose boosters following two doses of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or BNT162b2 and a third dose of BNT162b2 (COV-BOOST): a multicentre, blinded, phase 2, randomised trial
Alasdair P S Munro, Shuo Feng, Leila Janani, Victoria Cornelius, Parvinder K Aley, Gavin Babbage, David Baxter, Marcin Bula, Katrina Cathie, Krishna Chatterjee, Kate Dodd, Yvanne Enever, Ehsaan Qureshi, Anna L Goodman, Christopher A Green, Linda Harndahl, John Haughney, Alexander Hicks, Agatha A van der Klaauw, Nasir Kanji, Vincenzo Libri, Martin J Llewelyn, Alastair C McGregor, Mina Maallah, Angela M Minassian, Patrick Moore, Mehmood Mughal, Yama F Mujadidi, Kyra Holliday, Orod Osanlou, Rostam Osanlou, Daniel R Owens, Mihaela Pacurar, Adrian Palfreeman, Daniel Pan, Tommy Rampling, Karen Regan, Stephen Saich, Tanveer Bawa, Dinesh Saralaya, Sunil Sharma, Ray Sheridan, Emma C Thomson, Shirley Todd, Chris Twelves, Robert C Read, Sue Charlton, Bassam Hallis, Mary Ramsay & Saul N Faust, 2022, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 22(8), 1131-1141
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00271-7
Type: article
Baricitinib in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial and updated meta-analysis
Peter W. Horby, Jonathan R Emberson, Marion Mafham, Saul Faust, Richard Haynes, Martin J Landray & Sophie Fletcher, 2022, The Lancet, 400(10349), 359-368
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01109-6
Type: article
Association of childhood BMI trajectory with post-adolescent and adult lung function is mediated by pre-adolescent DNA methylation
Rutu Rathod, Hongmei Zhang, Wilfried Karmaus, Susan Ewart, Fawaz Mzayek, S. Hasan Arshad & John W. Holloway, 2022, Respiratory Research, 23(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12931-022-02089-4
Type: article
Community seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents in England, 2019-2021
Helen Ratcliffe, K.S. Tiley, Nick Andrews, Gayatri Amirthalingam, I. Vichos, E. Morey, N.L. Douglas, S. Marinou, Emma Plested, Parvinder Aley, Eva P. Galiza, Saul N. Faust, S. Hughes, Clare S. Murray, Marion Roderick, Fiona Shackley, Sam J. Oddie, Tim Lees, D.P.J. Turner, M. Raman, Stephen Owens, Paul Turner, H. Cockerill, J. Lopez Bernal, E. Linley, Ray Borrow, Kevin Brown, Mary Elizabeth Ramsay, M. Voysey & Matthew D. Snape, 2022, Archives of Disease in Childhood
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2022-324375
Type: article
Assessment of activity profiles in older adults and lower limb bone parameters: Observations from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study
Camille Parsons, Elaine Dennison, Nicholas Fuggle, Micheal O. Breasail, Kevin C. Deere, Kimberly Hannam, J.H. Tobias, Cyrus Cooper & Kate Ward, 2022, Calcified Tissue International, 111(1), 13-20
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-022-00953-5
Type: article
Comparative risk of acute myocardial infarction for anti-osteoporosis drugs in primary care: a meta-analysis of propensity-matched cohort findings from the UK Clinical Practice Research Database and the Catalan SIDIAP Database
S. Khalid, S. Calderon-Larranaga, A. Sami, S. Hawley, A. Judge, N. Arden, T.P. Van Staa, C. Cooper, B. Abrahamsen, M. Kassim Javaid & D. Prieto-Alhambra, 2022, Osteoporosis International, 33, 1579-1589
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-021-06262-1
Type: article
Describing correlates of early childhood screen time and outdoor time in Soweto, South Africa
Alessandra Prioreschi & Shane A. Norris, 2022, Infant and Child Development, 31(4)
DOI: 10.1002/icd.2313
Type: article