Ravinder Maini
Sir Ravinder Nath Maini 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.