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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.
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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