Dinara Uzbekova

Dinara Galievna Uzbekova (1933 to 2020) was a Russian pharmacologist and Doctor of Medical Sciences who spent her career at Ryazan State Medical University. Born in Almetyevsk, Tatarstan, then part of the Soviet Union, she graduated with honors from the Ryazan medical school in 1957 and began working there in 1959. She headed the Central Research Laboratory from 1978 to 1983, the Department of Clinical Pharmacology from 1983 to 1993 and the Department of Pharmacology from 2008 to 2010, and from 1994 she curated courses in apitherapy. She defended her doctoral dissertation in 1974, chaired the Ryazan branch of the All-Russian Society of Pharmacologists, and was named Honored Worker of Higher School of the Russian Federation in 2012. She also wrote on the history of Russian medicine as a biographer of Nikolai Kravkov. She died on 13 October 2020, aged 87.