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

Genetic link determining the maternal-fetal circulation of Vitamin D
Aparna Sampathkumar, Karen Mei Ling Tan, Li Chen, Mary Foong-Fong Chong, Fabian Yap, Keith Godfrey, Yap-Seng Chong, Peter D. Gluckman, A. Ramasamy & Neerja Karmani, 2021, Frontiers in Genetics, 12
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.721488
Type: article
Healthcare resource use and costs for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus with and without severe mental illness in England
Han-I Wang, Lu Han, Rowena Jacobs, Stephanie L Prady, Richard Holt, Simon Gilbody, David Shiers, Sarah Alderson, Catherine Hewitt, Jo Taylor, Charlotte E Kitchen, Sue Bellass & Najma Siddiqi, 2021, British Journal of Psychology
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2021.131
Type: article
APOE genotype modifies the plasma oxylipin response to omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation in healthy individuals
Rasha N. Saleh, Annette West, Annika I. Ostermann, Nils H. Schebb , Philip Calder & Anne Marie Minihane, 2021, Frontiers in Nutrition, 8
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.723813
Type: article
Myo-inositol – a potential prophylaxis against premature onset of labour and preterm birth
Neha Sharma, Oliver C. Watkins, Anne H.Y. Chu, Wayne Cutfield, Keith Godfrey, Hannah E.J. Yong & Shiao-Yng Chan, 2021, Nutrition Research Reviews
DOI: 10.1017/S0954422421000299
Type: article
Fractional exhaled nitric oxide nonsuppression identifies corticosteroid-resistant type 2 signaling in severe asthma
2021, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 204(6), 731-734
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202104-1040LE
Type: article
Bidirectional epithelial-mesenchymal crosstalk provides self-sustaining profibrotic signals in pulmonary fibrosis
Liudi Yao, Yilu Zhou, Juanjuan Li, Leanne Wickens, Franco Conforti, Anna Simron Rattu, Fathima M Ibrahim, Aiman Alzetani, Benjamin Marshall, Sophie Fletcher, David Hancock, Timothy Wallis, Julian Downward, Robert Ewing, Luca Richeldi, Paul Skipp, Donna Davies, Mark Glynne Jones & Yihua Wang, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 297(3)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101096
Type: article
Secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in hospitalised COVID-19 patients as indicated by a modified HScore is infrequent and high scores do not associate with increased mortality
Michael R Ardern-Jones, Matt Stammers, Hang Tt Phan, Florina Borca, Anastasia Koutalopoulou, Ying Teo, James Batchelor, Trevor Smith & Andrew S Duncombe, 2021, Clinical Medicine, 21(5), e543-e547
DOI: 10.7861/clinmed.2021-0053
Type: article