P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Mansurova, Farida

Tajik physician Farida Homidovna Mansurova was born on May 2,

1952, into a family of physicians of Samarqand. She is the daughter of

Academic Homid Mansurov, and the late Irina Gafarovna Mansurova.

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She received her early education in Russian schools between 1959 and

1969.

Mansurova graduated from the Tajikistan State Medical Institute in

1975. From 1975 to 1977, Mansurova was an intern in the Department

of Internal Medicine of the Tajikistan State Medical Institute. Between

1977 and 1982, she was a Scientific Worker in the Division of Bio-

chemistry of Medicine at the Scientific Institute of Gastroenterology.

From 1982 until January 2002, she was the Head of the Biochemistry

Division of the Tajikistan State Medical Institute.

Mansurova defended her scientific work at the Sechenov Academy

of Moscow in 1984, and in 1998, defended her doctoratal dissertation

with distinction at Tajikistan State Medical Institute. Since February 1,

2002, Mansurova has been Assistant Director of the Research Institute

of Gastroenterology.

Mansurova's contributions include a study in 1995 for a new treat-

ment of an illness usually referred to as the Mirochnic-Mansurov dis-

ease.