P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Mirojov, Ghiosiddin

Tajik physician Ghiosiddin Qudbiddinovich Mirojov was born in

Gharm on October 12, 1944. He joined the CPSU in 1983.

Mirojov graduated from the Tajikistan State Medical Institute in

1968. From 1968 to 1971, he was a post-graduate student at the Mos-

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cow Medical Institute. In 1971 and 1972, he was a Senior Scientific

Worker at the Institute of Gasteroenterology of the Academy of

Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1972, he became Acting Director and Head of

the Morphology Division of the same institute. He received his doctor-

ate degree in medicine in 1981.

Mirojov's research deals with the morphology of the liver and the

various causes of its malfunction, including the use of alcoholic bever-

ages and the "B" jaundice virus. In cooperation with H. H. Mansurov,

he discovered the clinical and morphological properties of hereditary

fibers of the liver, and suggested principles for its diagnosis. Mirojov's

contribution, which he shares with H. H. Mansurov, is entitled "Markeri

virusa gepatita B v tkani pecheni nositelei HBs-antigena" ("Symptoms

of Hepatitis B in the Structure of the Patients' Livers") in Arkhiv

Patologii, No. 4, 1984.

Mirojov became a Distinguished Physician of the Soviet Union in

1977, and a member of the Association of Pathologists and Gastroen-

terologists of the Soviet Union in 1983.