Impact

Southampton has been at the forefront of nutrition and respiratory research driving better health and care for over two decades. Here you can see examples of the impact our work has had.

See our impact in fighting coronavirus in our dedicated COVID-19 impact section.

BRC research part of national Big Challenge on obesity

Enabling new antimicrobial therapies

Faster COVID-19 diagnoses: From idea to frontline use in just two months

Innovative PPE protecting frontline staff

Lynchpin in $220M fight against breathlessness

Rapidly repurposed antiviral lung therapy

The cost of malnutrition in the UK economic report

Using genetics to tackle Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Cancer drug gives new hope for incurable lung disease

Fast tracking COVID-19 drugs into large scale trials

Influencing national advice on health data use

Largest ever omega-3 study for early non alcoholic fatty liver disease

Pioneering saliva self-sampling to keep schools, society open

Tackling surging alcoholic
liver disease

Using deliberate infection to study deadly diseases