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
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 (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

Beneficial outcomes of omega-6 and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on human health: an update for 2021
Ivana Djuricic & Philip Calder, 2021, Nutrients, 13(7)
DOI: 10.3390/nu13072421
Type: review
Culture and community perceptions on diet for maternal and child health: a qualitative study in rural Northern Ghana
Maxwell A. Dalaba, Engelbert A. Nonterah, Samuel T. Chatio, James K. Adoctor, Daniella Watson, Mary Barker, Kate Ward & Cornelius Debpuur, 2021, BMC Nutrition, 7(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s40795-021-00439-x
Type: article
Free school meals as an opportunity to target social equality, healthy eating, and school functioning: experiences from students and teachers in Norway
Kristine E. Illokken, Berit Johannessen, Mary Barker, Polly Hardy-Johnson, Nina C. Overby & Froydis N. Vik, 2021, Food & Nutrition Research, 65
DOI: 10.29219/fnr.v65.7702
Type: article
Nutrition and frailty: opportunities for prevention and treatment
Mary Ni Lochlainn, Natalie J. Cox, Thomas Wilson, Richard P. G. Hayhoe, Sheena E. Ramsay, Antoneta Granic, Masoud Isanejad, Helen C. Roberts, Daisy Wilson, Carly Welch, Christopher Hurst, Janice L. Atkins, Nuno Mendonça, Katy Horner, Esme R. Tuttiett, Yvie Morgan, Phil Heslop, Elizabeth A. Williams, Claire J. Steves, Carolyn Greig, John Draper, Clare A. Corish, Ailsa Welch, Miles D. Witham, Avan A. Sayer & Sian Robinson, 2021, Nutrients, 13(7), 2349
DOI: 10.3390/nu13072349
Type: article
A recombinant commensal bacteria elicits heterologous antigen-specific immune responses during pharyngeal carriage
Jay R. Laver, Diane Gbesemete, Adam P. Dale, Zoe C. Pounce, Carl N. Webb, Eleanor F. Roche, Graham Berreen, Konstantinos Belogiannis, Alison R. Hill, Muktar M. Ibrahim, David W. Cleary, Anish K. Pandey, Holly E. Humphries, Lauren Allen, Hans de Graaf, Martin C. Maiden, Saul N. Faust, Andrew R. Gorringe & Robert C. Read, 2021, Science Translational Medicine, 13(601)
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abe8573
Type: article
Automated quality-controlled cardiovascular magnetic resonance pericardial fat quantification using a convolutional neural network in the UK Biobank.
Andrew Bard, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Maddalena Ardissino, Aaron Mark Lee, Francesca Pugliese, Damini Dey, Sandip Sarkar, Patricia B. Munroe, Stefan Neubauer, Nicholas Harvey & Steffen E. Petersen, 2021, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 8
DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.677574
Type: article
Consequences of ignoring clustering in linear regression
Georgia Ntani, Hazel Inskip, Clive Osmond & David Coggon, 2021, BMC Medical Research Methodology, 21(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-021-01333-7
Type: article