Ravinder N. Maini
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Sir Ravinder Maini (1938 - ) is rheumatology professor at the Kennedy Institute, part of Imperial College London. Maini was born in Ludhiana in the Punjab region of India but has lived most of his life in the UK. He did his bachelor's degree at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Maini is often known by his nickname of 'Tiny'. In the 1980s Maini and colleague Marc Feldmann identified TNF alpha as a key cytokine in the process of rheumatoid arthritis. Maini was knighted for this work in 2003, the same year as he received the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.
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