Background
Andrey Darievich Mirzabekov was born on October 19, 1937.
Andrey Darievich Mirzabekov was born on October 19, 1937.
Mirzabekov Andrey studied at the Institute of Fine Chemical Technology of M.V. Lomonosov. In his student years he worked as a senior laboratory assistant in the Institute of Molecular Biology, created by Academician V.A. Engelhardt (then - Institute of Radiation and Physicochemical Biology of the USSR Academy of Sciences). All of his further scientific life is inextricably linked with it.
In 1973 Andrey Darievich became the director of the newly organized laboratory for the molecular organization of chromosomes (now the laboratory of chromatin structure and function), and in 1984 became director of the Institute of Molecular Biology, which in 1988 was given the name of the creator and first director of VA Engelgardt. Mirzabekov's development as a scientist included many months of internships in the world's leading biological laboratories, such as the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, Great Britain, in 1971, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in 1975, Harvard University in 1975. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Molecular Biology.
December 29, 1981 A.D Mirzabekov was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds. December 23, 1987 he was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1991 - RAS) for the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds (molecular biology).