P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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After graduating from the Tajikistan State Medical Institute in 1959,

Haidarov worked at the Norak Hospital. In 1963, he was a Junior and

later a Senior Scientific Worker. In 1968, he became the Director of

Pharmacology of the Institute of Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences

of Tajikistan. He received his doctorate degree in medicine in 1972, and

became a professor in 1982. He is the Head of the Association of the

Pharmacologists of Tajikistan.

Haidarov's research deals with pharmacology of medicinal plants

and with the chemical synthesis of these plants. His contributions in-

clude Prirodnaia apteka (Natural Medicinal Drugs, Dushanbe, 1970)

and Polimeri v meditsine (Polymers in Medicine, Dushanbe, 1975).