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Sir Ravinder Nath Maini (born 17 November 1937) is an Indian-born British rheumatologist and academic who is an emeritus professor at Imperial College London. He led the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology.
Biography
Maini was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, British India, to Sir Amar Maini, a Kenyan-born lawyer and Ugandan politician, and his wife, Sam Saheli Mehra. His younger brother is academic Yoginder Nath Tidu Maini. Ravinder completed his bachelor's degree at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. In the 1980s, Maini, Marc Feldmann and Fionula Brennan identified TNF alpha as a key cytokine in the process of rheumatoid arthritis.
Honours and awards
2000: Maini was awarded the Crafoord Prize jointly with Marc Feldmann.
2003: Knighthood
2003: Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.
2004: Fothergillian prize from the London Medical Society
2004: Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
2007: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
2008: Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research together with Marc Feldmann.
2010: Ernst Schering Prize from the German Schering Foundation together with Marc Feldmann.
2024: Royal Medal of the Royal Society jointly with Marc Feldmann.
He is an honorary member of the British Society for Immunology.
References
External links
Emeritus Professor Sir Ravinder Maini
Sir Ravinder Maini's biography on Faculty of 1000