External resources
Current NHS consultant posts held
Consultant Nephrologist and Physician
Department of Renal Medicine and Transplantation
Barts Health NHS Trust
London E1 1BB
Research interests
Resolution of inflammation
Lupus (SLE)
Vasculitis
Personal interests
Travel
Awards received
Kidney Research UK clincial Research Fellowship
(Additional) Languages spoken
Publications
Forbes SH, Robert SC, Martin JE, Rajakariar R. Quiz page January 2012- Acute kidney injury with hematuria, a positive ANCA test and low levels of complement Am J Kidney Dis. 59 :A28-31, 2012.
Rajakariar R, Newson J, Jackson EK, Sawmynaden P, Smith A, Rahman F, Yaqoob MM, Gilroy DW. Nonresolving inflammation in gp91phox-/- mice, a model of human chronic granulomatous disease, has lower adenosine and cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate. J Immunol. 182:3262-9, 2009
Ravindra Rajakariar, Toby Lawrence , Jonas Bystrom, Mark Hilliard, Paul Colville-Nash, Geoff Bellingan, Desmond Fitzgerald, Muhammad M Yaqoob and Derek W Gilroy. Novel biphasic role for lymphocytes revealed during resolving inflammation. Blood 111:4184-92, 2008
Ravindra Rajakariar, Mark Hilliard, Toby Lawrence, Paul Colville-Nash, Geoff Bellingan, Desmond Fitzgerald, Muhammad M Yaqoob and Derek W Gilroy. Haematopoietic prostaglandin D2 synthase controls the onset, resolution and post-resolution susceptibility to injury and infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104: 20979-84, 2007. [ Editorial by Oliver Howarth and Christopher Buckley, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104: 20647-20648, 2007.]
Soloman AW. Rajakariar R, Sheaff M and Fan SL. Lymphoma masquerading as a peritoneal dialysis catheter leak. Kidney International. 72 : 904, 2007
Morris T, Rajakariar R, Stables M and Gilroy DW. Not all eicosanoids are bad.
Trends Pharmacol Sci. 27: 609-611, 2006
Rajakariar R, Yaqoob MM and Gilroy DW. COX-2 in Inflammation and Resolution.
Mol Interv. 6:199-207, 2006.
Rajakariar R, Sharples EJ, Raftery MJ, Sheaff M, Yaqoob MM. Sarcoid tubulo-interstitial nephritis: Long-term outcome and response to corticosteroid therapy.
Kidney Int. 70:165-9, 2006. [Cited in research highlights section of Nature Clinical Practice- Nephrology]
Trivedi SG, Newson J, Rajakariar R, Jacques TS, Hannon R, Kanaoka Y, Eguchi N, Colville-Nash P, Gilroy DW. Essential role for hematopoietic prostaglandin D2 synthase in the control of delayed type hypersensitivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103: 5179-84, 2006.
Rajakariar R, Naina Jivanji, Mira Varagunam, Mohammad Rafiq, Arun Gupta, Michael Sheaff, Paul Sinnott and MM Yaqoob.
High pre-transplant soluble CD30 levels are predictive of the grade of rejection.
Am J Transplant 5:1922-5. 2005.
Courses offered to GPs
Chronic kidney disease
CKD and Hypertension
Diabetic renal disease