Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Read

Chair in Infectious Diseases
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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

Sex-specific longitudinal association of DNA methylation with lung function
Shadia Khan Sunny, Hongmei Zhang, Caroline L. Relton, Susan Ring, Latha Perunthadambil Kadalayil, Fawaz Mzayek, Susan Ewart, John W. Holloway & Syed Arshad, 2021, ERJ Open Research, 7(3), 00127-2021
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00127-2021
Type: article
Management of asthma in childhood
Alexander G. Mathioudakis, Michael Miligkos, Cristina Boccabella, Gioulinta S. Alimani, Adnan Custovic, A. Deschildre, Francine Monique Ducharme, Omer Kalayci, Clare Murray, Antonio Nieto Garcia, Wanda Phipatanakul, David Price, Aziz Sheikh, Ioana Octavia Agache, Leonard Bacharier, Apostolos Beloukas, Andrew Bentley, Matteo Bonini, Jose A. Castro-Rodriguez, Giuseppe De Carlo, Timothy Craig, Zuzana Diamant, Wojciech Feleszko, Tim Felton, James E. Gern, Jonathan Grigg, Gunilla Hedlin, Elham M. Hossny, Despo Ierodiakonou, Tuomas Jartti, Alan Kaplan, Robert F. Lemanske, Peter N. Le Souëf, Mika J. Mäkelä, Georgios A. Mathioudakis, Paolo Matricardi, Marina Mitrogiorgou, Mario Morais-Almeida, Karthik Nagaraju, Effie Papageorgiou, Helena Pité, Paulo M.C. Pitrez, Petr Pohunek, Graham Roberts, Ioanna Tsiligianni, Stephen Turner, Susanne Vijverberg, Tonya A. Winders, Gary W.K. Wong, Paraskevi Xepapadaki & et al., 2021, BMJ Open, 11(7), e048338
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048338
Type: article
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Giovanni Targher, Herbert Tilg & Christopher Byrne, 2021, The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 6(7), 578-588
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-1253(21)00020-0
Type: review
Update on cardiovascular risk in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Michael P Johnston, Janisha Patel & Christopher Byrne, 2021, Current Opinion in Cardiology, 36(4), 478-486
DOI: 10.1097/HCO.0000000000000861
Type: article
Machine learning algorithm outperforms fibrosis markers in predicting significant fibrosis in biopsy-confirmed NAFLD
Gong Feng, Kenneth I. Zheng, Yang-Yang Li, Rafael S. Rios, Pei-Wu Zhu, Xiao-Yan Pan, Gang Li, Hong-Lei Ma, Liang-Jie Tang, Christopher Byrne, Giovanni Targher, Na He, Man Mi, Yong-Ping Chen & Ming-Hua Zheng, 2021, Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences, 28(7), 593-603
DOI: 10.1002/jhbp.972
Type: article
Maternal circulating SPINT1 is reduced in small-for-gestational age pregnancies at 26 weeks
Tu'uhevaha J. Kaitu'u-Lino, Stephen Tong, Susan P. Walker, Teresa M. MacDonald, Ping Cannon, Tuong-Vi Nguyen, Suresh Anand Sadananthan, Mya Thway Tint, Yi Ying Ong, See Ling Loy, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap-Seng Chong, Keith Godfrey, Shiao-Yng Chan, Kok Hian Tan, Yung Seng Lee, Navin Michael, Johan G. Eriksson & Mary E. Wlodek, 2021, Placenta, 110, 24 - 28
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2021.05.007
Type: article
Opportunistic diagnosis of osteoporosis, fragile bone strength and vertebral fractures from routine CT scans; a review of approved technology systems and pathways to implementation
Veena Aggarwal, Christina Maslen, Richard L Abel, Pinaki Bhattacharya, Paul A Bromiley, Emma M Clark, Juliet E Compston, Nicola Crabtree, Jennifer S Gregory, Eleni P Kariki, Nicholas C Harvey, Kate A Ward & Kenneth E S Poole, 2021, Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease, 13, 1-19
DOI: 10.1177/1759720X211024029
Type: article