Ravinder N. Maini
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Sir Ravinder Nath Maini (1937 - ) is rheumatology
Rheumatology
Rheumatology is a sub-specialty in internal medicine and pediatrics, devoted to diagnosis and therapy of rheumatic diseases. Clinicians who specialize in rheumatology are called rheumatologists...

 professor at the Kennedy Institute, part of Imperial College London
Imperial College London
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. Maini was born in Ludhiana in the Punjab region
Punjab region
The Punjab , also spelled Panjab |water]]s"), is a geographical region straddling the border between Pakistan and India which includes Punjab province in Pakistan and the states of the Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and some northern parts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi...

 of India but has lived most of his life in the UK. He did his bachelor's degree at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
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.

In the 1980s Maini and colleague Marc Feldmann
Marc Feldmann
Sir Marc Feldmann is an Australian immunologist, and a professor at the Imperial College School of Medicine where he is a head of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology.-Biography:...

 identified TNF alpha as a key cytokine
Cytokine
Cytokines are small cell-signaling protein molecules that are secreted by the glial cells of the nervous system and by numerous cells of the immune system and are a category of signaling molecules used extensively in intercellular communication...

 in the process of rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks synovial joints. The process produces an inflammatory response of the synovium secondary to hyperplasia of synovial cells, excess synovial fluid, and the development...

. Maini was awarded the Crafoord Prize
Crafoord Prize
The Crafoord Prize is an annual science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord...

 in 2000. He was knighted for this work in 2003, the same year as he received the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research
Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research
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. In 2008 he was awarded the Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
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 together with Marc Feldmann.

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