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

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…
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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

The FEED1 trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of full milk feeds versus intravenous fluids with gradual feeding for preterm infants (30–33 weeks gestational age)
Eleanor J. Mitchell, Garry Meakin, Josie Anderson, Jon Dorling, Chris Gale, Rachel Haines, Charlotte Kenyan, Mark J. Johnson, William McGuire, Hema Mistry, Alan Montgomery, Sam Oddie, Reuben Ogollah, Phoebe Pallotti, Christopher Partlett, Kate F. Walker & Shalini Ojha, 2022, Trials, 23(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-021-05994-z
Type: article
A digital intervention for respiratory tract infections (Internet Dr): process evaluation to understand how to support self-care for minor ailments
Sascha Miller, Lucy Yardley, Peter W.F. Smith, Mark Weal, Alexander MC Milton, Beth Stuart, Paul Little & Leanne Morrison, 2022, JMIR Formative Research , 6(1)
DOI: 10.2196/24239
Type: article
Risk of heart failure in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. JACC Review Topic of the Week.
Alessandro Mantovani, Christopher Byrne, Giovanni Benfari, Stefano Bonapace, Tracey G. Simon & Giovanni Targher, 2022, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 79(2), 180-191
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.11.007
Type: article
Semi-quantitative detection of inflammatory biomarkers using a laser-patterned multiplexed lateral flow device
Alice H. Iles, Peijun J.W. He, Ioannis N. Katis, Panagiotis P. Galanis, Anto J.U.K. John, Paul Elkington, Robert W. Eason & Collin L. Sones, 2022, Talanta, 237, 1-8
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122944
Type: article
A multi-omics approach to delineate sputum microbiome-associated asthma inflammatory phenotypes
Mahmoud I Abdel-Aziz, Susanne J H Vijverberg, Anne H Neerincx, Paul Brinkman, Ariane H Wagener, John H Riley, Ana R Sousa, Stewart Bates, Scott S Wagers, Bertrand De Meulder, Charles Auffray, Åsa M Wheelock, Aruna T Bansal, Massimo Caruso, Pascal Chanez, Mohib Uddin, Julie Corfield, Ildiko Horvath, Norbert Krug, Jacek Musial, Kai Sun, Dominick E Shaw, Thomas Sandström, Paolo Montuschi, Stephen J Fowler, René Lutter, Ratko Djukanovic, Peter Howarth, Paul Skipp, Marek Sanak, Ian M Adcock, Kian Fan Chung, Peter J Sterk, Aletta D Kraneveld & Anke H Maitland-van der Zee, 2022, The European respiratory journal, 59(1)
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02603-2021
Type: article
Decrease in sleep duration and poor sleep quality over time is associated with an increased risk of incident non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Yoo Jin Um, Yoosoo Chang , Hyun-Suk Jung, In Young Cho, Jun Ho Shin, Hocheol Shin, Sarah H. Wild, Christopher Byrne & Seungho Ryu, 2022, Journal of Personalized Medicine, 12(1)
DOI: 10.3390/jpm12010092
Type: article
Efficacy of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor agonists, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists or sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors for treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review
Alessandro Mantovani, Christopher Byrne & Giovanni Targher, 2022, The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 7(4), 367-378
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-1253(21)00261-2
Type: review