Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Professor Lakshminarayan Ranganath (LRR) is a metabolic consultant at Royal Liverpool University Hospital, and a Professor in Musculoskeletal Biology at the University of Liverpool. There was no NHS service available for Alkaptonuria when he developed an interest; numbers of AKU patients were

unknown, and no effective treatment for AKU was available. He established an NHS England Highly Specialised Services funded National Alkaptonuria Centre (NAC). LRR is the inaugural Director of the NAC. LRR 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.