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Professor Sir Ravinder Maini FRS FRCP FRCPE FMedSci
Maini in Budapest, 2013.
Born	(1937-11-17) 17 November 1937 (age 87) Ludhiana, Punjab, British India
Alma mater	Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Known for	discovery of anti-TNF therapy as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis
Awards	Crafoord Prize (2000) Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (2002) Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research (2003) Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research (2008) Gairdner Foundation International Award (2014) Royal Medal (2024)
Scientific career
Fields	Immunology
Institutions	Imperial College School of Medicine

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.

v t e Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2007
Fellows	Brad Amos Peter Barnes Gillian Bates Samuel Berkovic Michael Bickle Jeremy Bloxham David Boger Peter Bruce Michael Cates Geoffrey Cloke Richard Cogdell Stewart Cole George Coupland George F. R. Ellis Barry Everitt Andre Geim Siamon Gordon Rosemary Grant Grahame Hardie Bill Harris Nicholas Higham Anthony A. Hyman Anthony Kinloch Richard Leakey Malcolm Levitt Ottoline Leyser Paul Linden Peter Littlewood Ravinder N. Maini Robert Mair, Baron Mair Michael Malim Andrew McMahon Richard Moxon John A. Peacock Edward Arend Perkins Stephen Pope Daniela Rhodes Morgan Sheng David C. Sherrington Terence Tao Veronica van Heyningen David Lee Wark Trevor Wooley Andrew Zisserman
Foreign	Wallace Broecker James Cronin Stanley Falkow Tom Fenchel Jeremiah P. Ostriker Michael O. Rabin Gerald M. Rubin Peter Wolynes
Honorary	Onora O'Neill

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