Gabriel Panayi
Current post: Professor Emeritus of Rheumatology, King’s College London, and
Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London
Background: Trained St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London 1962-1965; medical degree University of Cambridge 1971; Doctor of Science University of Cambridge 1992. Medical Research Council Fellow Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, London 1967-1969; Arthritis and Rheumatism Council Fellow Rheumatic Diseases Unit, Northern General Hospital, Edinburgh 1970-1973; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 1981; Arthritis Research Campaign Professor of Rheumatology King's College London School of Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Hospital Trust 1980-2006.
Research interests: inflammatory joint disease, immunopathegenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, development of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
Most cited paper: Choy ES, Panayi GS (2001) Mechanisms of disease: cytokine pathways and joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis. New England Journal of Medicine Vol 344 (12):907-916.
Most important presentation: Heberden Oration 1992: The pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis: from molecules to the whole patient.
Work of which I am most proud: Rheumatoid arthritis: a disease of T lymphocyte / macrophage immunoregulation. (1981) Janossy G, Panayi G, Duke O, Bofill M, Poulter LW, Goldstein G: Lancet Vol 8251:839-842. This paper is the first clear formulation of the hypothesis that T cells are the critical cells in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis.
Other medical interests: Battling to comprehend whether fibromyalgia is an organic or a psychological illness.
