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

Long or irregular menstrual cycles and risk of prevalent and incident non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
In Young Cho, Yoosoo Chang, Jae-Heon Kang, Yejin Kim, Eunju Sung, Hocheol Shin, Sarah H. Wild, Christopher Byrne & Seungho Ryu, 2022, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 107(6), e2309-e2317
DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgac068
Type: article
Sarcopenia and myosteatosis predict adverse outcomes after emergency laparotomy
Samantha Body, Marjolein A. P. Ligthart, Saqib Rahman, James Ward, Peter May-miller, Philip H. Pucher, Nathan J. Curtis, Malcolm A. West, Clizia Airofarulla, Louise Alder, Nicholas Baylem, David Berry, Anastasia Benjafield, Thakshyanee Bhuvanakrishna, Amanda Bond, Richard Booth, Jack Broadhurst, James P. Byrne, Rachel Carten, Duncan Chambler, Heather Davis, Mark R. Edwards, Paul Froggatt, Nader Francis, Michael P. W. Grocott, Gui Han Lee, Denny Z. H. Levett, Camilla Hickish, Frances Howse, Prashan Kangesu, Zeeshan Khawaja, Jieyun Lee, Chui Lee, Jenny Mclachlan, Stuart Mercer, Alex H. Mirnezami, Brendan Moran, Victoria Morrison Jones, Kate Nicholls, Steven W. M. Olde Damink, Katherine Pearson, John N. Primrose, Paul Robinson, Eva Sorensen, Benjamin M. Stubbs, Noori Suhail, Simon Toh, Michael Terry, Alexios Tzivanakis & Timothy J. Underwood, 2022, Annals of Surgery, 275(6), 1103-1111
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004781
Type: article
The kynurenine pathway metabolites in cord blood positively correlate with early childhood adiposity
Karen Mei-Ling Tan, Mya-Thway Tint, Narasimhan Kothandaraman, Navin Michael, Suresh Anand Sadananthan, S. Sendhil Velan, Marielle V. Fortier, Fabian Yap, Kok Hian Tan, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap-Seng Chong, Mary F.F. Chong, Yung Seng Lee, Keith M. Godfrey, Johan G Eriksson & David Cameron-Smith, 2022, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 107(6), E2464-E2473
DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgac078
Type: article
A patient with multilocus imprinting disturbance involving hypomethylation at 11p15 and 14q32, and phenotypic features of Beckwith‐Wiedemann and Temple syndromes
Sarah E. Grosvenor, Justin H. Davies, Margaret Lever, Julie Sillibourne, Deborah J. G. Mackay & I. Karen Temple, 2022, American Journal of Medical Genetics part A, 188(6), 1896-1903
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62717
Type: article
Assessment and management of imminent fracture risk in the setting of the fracture liaison service
M. Kassim Javaid, Nicholas Harvey, Eugene V. McCloskey, John A. Kanis & Cyrus Cooper, 2022, Osteoporosis International, 33(6), 1185-1189
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-021-06284-9
Type: letterEditorial
Association of plasma kynurenine pathway metabolite concentrations with metabolic health risk in pre-pubertal Asian children
Karen Mei Ling Tan, Mya Thway Tint, Narasimhan Kothandaraman, Fabian Yap, Keith Godfrey, Yung Seng Lee, Kok Hian Tan, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap Seng Chong, Mary F.F. Chong, Johan G. Eriksson & David Cameron-Smith, 2022, International Journal of Obesity, 46(6), 1128-1137
DOI: 10.1038/s41366-022-01085-4
Type: article
Association of shorter leucocyte telomere length with risk of frailty
Vasiliki Bountziouka, Christopher P. Nelson, Veryan Codd, Qingning Wang, Crispin Musicha, Elias Allara, Stephen K. Kaptoge, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Adam S. Butterworth, John R. Thompson, Elizabeth Curtis, Angela M. Wood, John N. Danesh, Nicholas Harvey, Cyrus Cooper & Nilesh J. Samani, 2022, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 13(1), 1741-1751
DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.12971
Type: article