Ravinder N. Maini
Sir Ravinder Nath Maini is an Indian-born British rheumatologist and academic who is a professor at the Kennedy Institute, part of Imperial College London.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 and colleague Marc Feldmann identified TNF alpha as a key cytokine in the process of rheumatoid arthritis.Honours and awards
He is an honorary member of the British Society for Immunology.
