Professor Tatyana Borisovna Tolpegina. Volume 76, No. 2 (1995)

December 25, 1994 marked the 70th anniversary of birth and 47 years of scientific, pedagogical and social activities of a prominent representative of the Kazan pathophysiological school, Honored Scientist of Tatarstan, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Tatyana Borisovna Tolpegina. After graduating from the Kazan Medical Institute in 1947, T. B. Tolpegina completed her postgraduate studies at the Department of Pathological Physiology under prof. A. D. Ado and in 1952 defended her thesis on the topic "On the pathogenesis of bradycardia in typhoid fever." From 1954 to 1956, she was sent by the Ministry of Health of the USSR to work at the Mongolian University as the head of the Department of Physiology. The subsequent years of work as an assistant and associate professor at the Department of Pathophysiology of the Kazan Medical Institute ended in 1967 with the defense of a doctoral dissertation on the topic Some mechanisms of an allergic reaction of the gallbladder.