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

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

A phase IV, multi-centre, randomized clinical trial comparing two pertussis-containing vaccines in pregnant women in England and vaccine responses in their infants
Christine E Jones, Anna Calvert , Jo Southern , Mary Matheson , Nick Andrews , Asma Khalil , Hannah Cuthbertson , Bassam Hallis , Anna England , Paul T. Heath & Elizabeth Miller, 2021, BMC Medicine, 19(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-021-02005-5
Type: article
Analyses of child cardiometabolic phenotype following assisted reproductive technologies using a pragmatic trial emulation approach
Jonathan Y. Huang, Shirong Cai, Zhongwei Huang, Tint Mya, Wen Lun Yuan, Izzuddin M. Aris, Keith Godfrey, Neerja Karmani, Yung Seng Lee, Jerry Kok Yen Chan, Yap-Seng Chong, Johan G. Eriksson & Shiao-Yng Chan, 2021, Nature Communications, 12(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25899-4
Type: article
Applicability of the GAIA Maternal and Neonatal Outcome Case Definitions for the Evaluation of Adverse Events Following Vaccination in Pregnancy in High-income Countries
Gabriella Watson, Caitlin Dodd, Flor M Munoz, Linda O Eckert, Christine E Jones, Jim P Buttery, Inci B Yildirim, Alisa Kachikis, Paul T Heath, Elizabeth P Schlaudecker, Nanette H Bond, Patricia L Santarcangelo, Christopher R Wilcox, Karen Bellamy, Mohnd Elmontser, Laura Sienas, Rebecca Simon, Asma Khalil, Rosemary Townsend, Miriam Sturkenboom & Steve Black, 2021, The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 40(12), 1127-1134
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003261
Type: article
Completion of annual diabetes care processes and mortality: A cohort study using the National Diabetes Audit for England and Wales
Naomi Holman, Peter Knighton, Jackie O'Keefe, Sarah H Wild, Wasim Hanif, Vinod Patel, Edward W Gregg, Richard Holt, Roger Gadsby, Kamlesh Khunti, Jonathan Valabhji, Bob Young & Naveed Sattar, 2021, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 23(12), 2728-2740
DOI: 10.1111/dom.14528
Type: article
Differential relationships between parent-child DXA and pQCT bone measures: Results from the Southampton women’s survey.
Christopher R. Holroyd, Sarah A Carter, Sarah Crozier, Stefania D'angelo, Elizabeth Curtis, Rebecca Moon, Justin Davies, Kate Ward, Elaine Dennison, Hazel Inskip, Keith Godfrey, Cyrus Cooper & Nicholas Harvey, 2021, Bone, 153
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2021.116134
Type: article
Is lifestyle change around retirement associated with better physical performance in older age?: insights from a longitudinal cohort
Sian Robinson, Leo Westbury, Kate Ward, Holly Emma Syddall, Rachel Cooper, Cyrus Cooper & Avan Aihie Sayer, 2021, European Journal of Ageing, 18(4), 513-521
DOI: 10.1007/s10433-021-00607-9
Type: article
Osteophyte size and location on hip DXA scans are associated with hip pain: findings from a cross sectional study in UK Biobank.
Benjamin Faber, Raja Ebsim, Fiona R. Saunders, Monika Frysz , Claudia Lindner, Jennifer S. Gregory, Richard M. Aspden, Nicholas Harvey, George Davey Smith, Timothy Cootes & Jonathan H. Tobias, 2021, Bone, 153
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2021.116146
Type: article