Research project

Southampton Neonatal Nutrition Research Group

Project overview

The Southampton Neonatal Nutrition Research Group is a collaboration between University of Southampton scientists, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust clinicians and researchers within the NIHR Southampton BRC. It exists to investigate neonatal nutrition to enhance the growth and development of babies born prematurely or with surgical problems.

Our work focuses on tracking of the growth of preterm infants, alongside rich data on the clinical care and daily nutritional intakes which they receive. We work with partners in the University of Southampton and beyond to explore the influences of nutrition, clinical care, genomics and metabolomics on the growth, health and development of vulnerable preterm and surgical infants.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Mark Johnson

Professor of Child Health
Research interests
  • Neonatal and Infant nutrition, feeding and metabolism
  • Growth and body composition of premature and term born infants
  • Nutritional care and management in clinical paediatric practice
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Other researchers

Dr Aneurin Young MBBS BSc PhD

NIHR Clinical Lecturer
Research interests
  • Neonatology
  • Clinical nutrition
  • Metabolomics
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Research outputs

Kenny McCormick, Caroline King, Sara Clarke, Chris Jarvis, Mark Johnson, Helen M. Parretti, Nora Greene & Joanna Males, 2021, British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 82(3), 42-48
Type: article
Aneurin Young, Edward T. Andrews, James John Ashton, Freya Pearson, R. Mark Beattie & Mark John Johnson, 2020, Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 105(6), 646-651
Type: article
Aneurin Young, Edward T. Andrews, James John Ashton, Freya Pearson, R. Mark Beattie & Mark John Johnson, 2019, Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 104(6), F663-F664
Type: letterEditorial
Mark J. Johnson, Alison A. Leaf, Pearson Freya, Howard W. Clark, Borislav D. Dimitrov, Catherine Pope & Carl R. May, 2017, BMJ Open, 7(12)
Type: article
2016, Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition, F481
Type: article