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
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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…
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

Maternal diet in pregnancy and child's respiratory outcomes: an individual participant data meta-analysis of 18,000 children
Sara M. Mensink-Bout, Evelien R. van Meel, Johan C. de Jongste, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Adrien M. Aubert, Jonathan Y. Bernard, Ling-Wei Chen, Cyrus Cooper, Sarah Crozier, Wojciech Hanke, Nicholas Harvey, James R. Hebert, Barbara Heude, Joanna Jerzynska, Cecily Kelleher, John Mehegan, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, Catherine M. Phillips, Kinga Polanska, Caroline L. Relton, Nitin Shivappa, Matthew Suderman, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe & Liesbeth Duijts, 2021, European Respiratory Journal
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01315-2021
Type: article
One leg standing time predicts fracture risk in older women independent of clinical risk factors and BMD
Berit A.M. Larsson, Lisa Johansson, D. Mellstrom, Helena Johansson, Kristian F. Axelsson, Nicholas Harvey, Lisbeth Vandenput, E. McCloskey, E. Liu, Daniel Sundh, J A. Kanis & M. Lorentzon, 2021, Osteoporosis International
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-021-06039-6
Type: article
Preventing within household transmission of Covid-19: is the provision of accommodation to support self-isolation feasible and acceptable?
Sarah Denford, Kate Morton, Jeremy Horwood, Rachel de Garang & Lucy Yardley, 2021, BMC Public Health, 12(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11666-z
Type: article
Altering product placement to create a healthier layout in supermarkets: outcomes on store sales, customer purchasing and diet in a prospective matched-controlled cluster study.
Christina Vogel, Sarah Crozier, Daniel J Penn-newman, Kylie Ball, Graham Moon, Joanne Lord, Cyrus Cooper & Janis Baird, 2021, PLoS Medicine, 18(9)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003729
Type: article
Anti-inflammatory effects of oleic acid and the anthocyanin keracyanin alone and in combination: effects on monocyte and macrophage responses and the NF-kappa B pathway
Aline B. Santamarina, Luciana P. Pisani, Ella Baker, Andreea D. Marat; Marat, Carina Valenzuela, Elizabeth Miles & Philip Calder, 2021, Food & Function, 12(17), 7909-7922
DOI: 10.1039/D1FO01304A
Type: article
Radiomics based on fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography predicts liver fibrosis in biopsy-proven MAFLD: a pilot study
Zhong-Wei Chen, Kun Tang, You-Fan Zhao, Yang-Zong Chen, Liang-Jie Tang, Gang Li, Ou-Yang Huang, Xiao-Dong Wang , Giovanni Targher, Christopher Byrne, Xiang-Wu Zheng & Ming-Hua Zheng, 2021, International Journal of Medical Sciences, 18(16), 3624-3630
DOI: 10.7150/ijms.64458
Type: article
A qualitative investigation into the results of a discrete choice experiment and the impact of COVID-19 on patient preferences for virtual consultations
Anthony W. Gilbert, Carl R. May, Hazel Brown, Maria Stokes & Jeremy Jones, 2021, Archives of Physiotherapy, 11(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s40945-021-00115-0
Type: article