P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Mansurova, Irina

Tajik biochemist Irina Jafarovna Mansurova was born in Bukhara on

November 15, 1925.

Mansurova graduated from the Samarqand Medical Institute in 1948.

Between 1951 and 1959, she was an intern at the Department of Conta-

gious Diseases at the Tajikistan State Medical Institute. Between 1959

and 1976, she was a Senior Scientific Worker and, later Director of the

Biochemistry Division of Medical Research of the Republic. She be-

came a doctor of medicine in 1967, and a professor in 1969. In 1976,

she became the Director of the Biochemical Laboratories in the Nature

Preservation Division of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.

Mansurova was the first in the Soviet Union to discover the princi-

ples governing the resolution of microchemical points on the liver--

points that can be extracted with special needles from the fabric of the

liver. She also worked with the various types of ferment constellations.

Under Mansurov's supervision, the reasons for the prolongation of dis-

eases, as well as the effects of herbal medicine in transformation of

matter in organisms was studied. The three-volume Eksperimental'naya

patologiya pecheni (Experimental Liver Pathology) was published un-

der her supervision. Mansurova's other contributions include Biokhimia

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