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.[1] He led the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology.[2]
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.[1] 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.[3]
- 2003: Knighthood
- 2003: Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.[4]
- 2004: Fothergillian prize from the London Medical Society[5]
- 2004: Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
- 2007: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society[6]
- 2008: Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research together with Marc Feldmann.[7][8]
- 2010: Ernst Schering Prize from the German Schering Foundation together with Marc Feldmann.[9]
- 2024: Royal Medal of the Royal Society jointly with Marc Feldmann.[10]
He is an honorary member of the British Society for Immunology.[11]
References
- ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2562. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ "Our History — The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology". www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ "The Crafoord Prize 2000".
- ^ "Imperial College London - British Scientists receive Lasker Prize for discovering new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis". www.imperial.ac.uk.
- ^ "Sir Ravinder Maini - F1000Prime". f1000.com.
- ^ "Ravinder Maini-Biography". Royal Society. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
- ^ "Dr. Paul Janssen Award". Dr. Paul Janssen Award.
- ^ Professors Marc Feldmann and Sir Ravinder Maini Named Winners of the 2008 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research Archived 2010-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Schering Stiftung".
- ^ Royal Medal 2024
- ^ "Honorary members - British Society for Immunology". www.immunology.org.
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