Sir Ravinder Nath Maini (born 17 November 1937) is an Indian-born British

rheumatologist Rheumatology (Greek ''ῥεῦμα'', ''rheûma'', flowing current) is a branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and management of disorders whose common feature is inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints, and internal organs. Rheumatolog ...

and academic who is an emeritus professor at

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. He led the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology.

Biography

Maini was born in

Ludhiana Ludhiana ( ) is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Punjab. The city has an estimated population of 1,618,879 2011 census and distributed over , making Ludhiana the most densely populated urban centre in the state. I ...

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...

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, 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 and colleague

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identified

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as a key

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in the process of

rheumatoid arthritis Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term autoimmune disorder that primarily affects joints. It typically results in warm, swollen, and painful joints. Pain and stiffness often worsen following rest. Most commonly, the wrist and hands are invol ...

Honours and awards

* 2000: Maini was awarded the

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. *2002: Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh * 2003: Knighthood * 2003: Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research. * 2004

Fothergillian prize The Medical Society of London is one of the oldest surviving medical societies (being organisations of voluntary association, rather than regulation or training) in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1773 by the Quaker physician and philanthro ...

from the

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* 2007 Elected

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemat ...

* 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. He is an honorary member of the

British Society for Immunology The British Society for Immunology, or BSI, is a UK-based organisation of British immunologists but accepts members from all countries. It was founded in November 1956 by John H. Humphrey, Robin Coombs, Bob White, and Avrion Mitchison and is on ...

References

External links

Emeritus Professor Sir Ravinder MainiSir Ravinder Maini's biography on Faculty of 1000
1937 births Living people Indian rheumatologists Academics of Imperial College London Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Indian medical educators Knights Bachelor British people of Indian descent Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Scientists from Ludhiana 20th-century Indian medical doctors British people of Punjabi descent Medical doctors from Punjab, India {{UK-scientist-stub