University Professor and Hospital Doctor, Southampton.
Joined October 2013
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Robert Read retweeted
28 Mar 2025
🔥 PhD opportunity 🔥
Interested in a @moderna_tx -funded PhD focused on deconvoluting the immunological mechanisms that protect against whooping cough to inform novel vaccine design with me, @afvallejop & @NoMoreMrNEISGuy?
Apply here before 18.06.25!
findaphd.com/phds/project/in…
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Robert Read retweeted
30 Apr 2024
Interesting Clinical Grand Round cases presented and discussed during #ESCMIDGlobal2024
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Robert Read retweeted
30 Apr 2024
Thank you @ESCMID for the best #ESCMIDGlobal and the generous Young Investigator Award. Big thanks to @SouthamptonBRC and @UoS_Medicine for the support for our clinical trials.
ALT Nathan presenting trial data showing molecular point-of-care testing reduces isolation room use by getting patients who don’t have diarrhoea out of these rooms.
ALT Conclusion: Molecular point-of-care testing improves patient care in many ways. Acknowledgements to colleagues, Southampton institutions, and our patients.
#ESCMID Young Investigator Award winner @nathanbrendish getting to point of point-of-care testing, the future of #POCT, and its importance for patient care. #ESCMID #ECCMID2024
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Robert Read retweeted
26 Apr 2024
Whooping cough cases have soared in recent decades. 📈
A model created in the PERISCOPE project, led by @profrobread from @UoS_Medicine and our BRC, is supporting the development of a new nasal vaccine.
Find out more 👇
ihi.europa.eu/news-events/ne…
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11 May 2023
Alastair Munro of NIHR Southampton BRC speaking today at ESPID
#ESPID2023
#ESPID2023Ambassador
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19 Apr 2023
ECCMID 2023 TV: Interview with Clinical Grand Rounds moderator, Robert Read youtu.be/CNLYVLoAX8E via @YouTube
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Robert Read retweeted
21 Oct 2022
What a great time it has been at @IDWeek2022 and so glad I got to attend an amazing session on complicated case presentation with @PriscillaRupali @Coyle_CM Lisa Winston, Carlos Isada, Robert Read, @CaseySmiley4 @NSpottiswoodeMD @AlaaAtamna @nathanbrendish and Varalee Terbsiri
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Robert Read retweeted
24 Jun 2022
A pioneering new study, led by @profrobread @southamptonbrc, is trialling a new and more effective vaccine for whooping cough. Volunteers will be compensated up to £3775 to take part. Find out more: bit.ly/3nbj6Eu
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Robert Read retweeted
26 Apr 2022
Great case of Balamuthia presented at ECCMID by @nmedvedevamd
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Robert Read retweeted
26 Apr 2022
Great case of neuromeliodosis presented at ECCMID by @docvip23
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Robert Read retweeted
27 Dec 2021
An @NIHRresearch study by @profrobread identified key strategies to improve the influenza vaccination rate among people at risk of serious disease. This has informed guidelines used by GPs to plan and deliver their annual vaccination programmes. bit.ly/3Hci7vs
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28 Dec 2021
I know very little about film editing but after watching Peter Jackson`s Get Back trilogy from beginning to end I felt deep respect for his professionalism and dedication
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"This infection is coming your way"
Professor Robert Read from the JCVI urges those who are unvaccinated to get their COVID jab as the Omicron variant is "highly transmittable" and we're going to see "more infections in this country very soon".
#COVID19 trib.al/BePSCqm
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10 Nov 2021
If you know someone in the Southampton area who might be able to volunteer for our whooping cough study please ask them to quote “periscope” to UHS.recruitmentCRF@NHS.net
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28 Oct 2021
we are working hard to complete our latest human challenge study with whooping cough bacteria. This is discovering better ways to vaccinate..
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