Huseynova Rufa Abdulla gızı
Oncologist
Biography

She studied at the Pediatric Faculty of Azerbaijan Medical University from 1965 to 1971.

Between1971 and 1973, she did clinical residency at the United Children’s Hospital No 8.

In 1973, she attended an advanced course in Parasitology at Azerbaijan State Advanced Training Institute for Doctors named after A. Aliyev.

She worked as a doctor-ordinator at the Maternity Hospital No3 from 1973 to 1975.

In 1975, she was appointed as a junior research worker at the Institute of Physiology named after A.I.Karaeva.

Between 1979 and 1983, she received a postgraduate education in specialty of  “Oncology” at the Oncological Scientific  Center of USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.

In 1985, she defended a PhD thesis on the “Effect of selenium-containing compounds on peroxidation of lipid in the liver of animals with induced hepatocarcinogenesis and growth of transplantable tumors” at the Institute of Oncology Problems named after R.E.Kavetsky in Kiev.

She was elected  as a senior research worker at the Laboratory of Experimental Therapy of the Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan SSR in 1985.

In 1987, she was awarded a title of Associate Professor in “oncology” with decision of HAC of USSR.

She was appointed as a Scientific Secretary of the National Center of Oncology in 1988. 

She has been a Scientific Secretary of Dissertation Council for Defence of Candidate and Doctoral theses in specialty of “oncology” and “radiation diagnostics and therapy” since 1993.

By the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, she was awarded  the “Medal of Progress” of Azerbaijan Republic for her contribution to the development of Health in Azerbaijan on June 16, 2011.

More than 100 scientific works were published.

4 certificates of authorship in invention, 4 rational proposals, 1 invention “Se-5 fluorouracil-new drug for anti-tumor activity”