Lakshminarayan Ranganath PhD

Professor Ranga is a busy full-time consultant in the NHS at Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He was appointed a Professor in Musculo-skeletal Biology in 2012 at the University of Liverpool. There was no NHS service available for rare disease Alkaptonuria in the UK when he developed an interest.

He is also co-ordinating an EC-funded international research programme that involves 3 studies in AKU. This will bring advances in AKU to all patients with AKU worldwide. In recognition of his contribution to AKU, he was awarded the inaugural 2012 RARE Champion of Hope for Medical Care and Treatment.