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

Lower airway clinical outcome measures for use in primary ciliary dyskinesia research
Florian Gahleitner, James Thompson, Claire Jackson, Jana, Franziska Hueppe, Laura Behan, Eleonora Dehlink, Myrofora Goutaki, Florian S. Halbeisen, Ana Paula Lima de Queiroz, Guillaume Thouvenin, Claudia E. Kuehni, Philipp Latzin, Jane Lucas & Bruna Rubbo, 2021, ERJ Open Research, 7(4)
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00320-2021
Type: article
Vaccination in pregnancy against pertussis and seasonal influenza
Théophile Baïssas, Florence Boisnard, Inmaculada Cuesta Esteve, Marta Garcia Sánchez, Christine E Jones, Thierry Rigoine de Fougerolles, Litjen Tan, Olivier Vitoux & Christina Klein, 2021, BMC Public Health, 21(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-12198-2
Type: article
Evidence around the impact of pulmonary rehabilitation and exercise on redox status in COPD: a systematic review
Alastair Watson, Tom M A Wilkinson & Anna Freeman, 2021, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 3
DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2021.782590
Type: review
Prevalence of overweight and obesity in people with severe mental illness: systematic review and meta-analysis
Medhia Afzal, Bilal Ahmad, Nida Afsheen, Faiza Aslam, Ayaz Ali, Rubab Ayesha, Maria Bryant, Richard Holt, Humaira Khalid, Kousar Ishaq, Kamrun Nahar Koly, Sukanya Rajan, Jobaida Saba, Nilesh Tirbhowan & Gerardo A Zavala, 2021, Frontiers in Endocrinology, 12
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2021.769309
Type: article
Nutrition, immunity and lung health: Time to take center stage
Emma J. Derbyshire & Philip Calder, 2021, Frontiers in Nutrition
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.797554
Type: letterEditorial
Associations of Childcare Arrangements with Adiposity Measures in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Cohort: The GUSTO Study
Beverly Wen-Xin Wong, Jia Ying Toh, Ray Sugianto, Airu Chia, Mya Thway Tint, Wen Lun Yuan, Natarajan Padmapriya, Carla Lanca, Seang-Mei Saw, Yung Seng Lee, Lynette P. Shek, Kok Hian Tan, Fabian Yap, Keith Godfrey, Yap-Seng Chong, Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, Johan G. Eriksson, Shiao-Yng Chan & Mary F.F. Chong, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182212178
Type: article
Early parenteral nutrition for preterm infants: perhaps more complicated than it first appears
Mark John Johnson, 2021, Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 107(2), 116-117
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-323072
Type: letterEditorial