Prof. Sir Ravinder Maini Imperial College London, UK

Ravinder Maini is an Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology at Imperial College London having recently retired as Director of the Kennedy Research Institute. In the 1980s Maini and colleague Marc Feldmann identified TNF alpha as a key cytokine in the process of rheumatoid arthritis. He was knighted for this work in... read more2003, when he also received the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research. His research has focused on pathogenesis of autoimmune rheumatic diseases in animal models and humans and immunotherapeutic approaches to rheumatoid arthritis.