拉文德·N·梅尼1937—

生平

马伊尼出生于英属印度旁遮普邦卢迪亚纳，父亲是肯亚出生的律师兼乌干达政治家阿玛尔·迈尼爵士，母亲为萨姆·萨赫莉·梅赫拉（Sam Saheli Mehra）。其弟为学者约金德·纳特·提杜·马伊尼（Yoginder Nath Tidu Maini）。拉文德于剑桥大学悉尼·萨塞克斯学院完成学士学位。1980年代，马伊尼、马克·费尔德曼与菲欧纽拉·布伦南共同确认了肿瘤坏死因子-α（TNF-α）是类风湿性关节炎发病机制中的关键细胞因子。

荣誉

• 克拉福德奖（2000年）
• 拉斯克临床医学研究奖（2003年）
• 弗瑟吉连奖（2004年）
• 爱丁堡大学卡梅伦治疗学奖（2004年）
• 皇家学会院士（2007年）
• 保罗·扬森博士生物医学研究奖（2008年）
• 恩斯特·舍林奖（2010年）
• 皇家奖章（2024年）

他是英国免疫学会的名誉会士。

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. He led the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology.

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, Marc Feldmann and Fionula Brennan identified TNF alpha as a key cytokine in the process of rheumatoid arthritis.

Honours and awards

2000: Maini was awarded the Crafoord Prize jointly with Marc Feldmann.

2003: Knighthood

2003: Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.

• 2004: Fothergillian prize from the London Medical Society
• 2004: Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
• 2007: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

2008: Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research together with Marc Feldmann.

2010: Ernst Schering Prize from the German Schering Foundation together with Marc Feldmann.

2024: Royal Medal of the Royal Society jointly with Marc Feldmann.

He is an honorary member of the British Society for Immunology.