Education
1947-1953 Tbilisi State Medical Institute, Doctor
1953-1956 Institute of Experimental Surgery and Hematology, Georgian Academy of Sciences, postgraduate studies.
Scientific degrees
1958 First scientific degree (Candidate of Medical Sciences, Ph.D.) conferred by the Scientific Council of the Tbilisi Medical Institute (Dissertation title: Autonomic Nervous Control of Gastric Mucus Secretion)
1983 Second scientific degree (Doctor of Biological Sciences) conferred by the Scientific Council of the Institute of Development Biology, Georgian Academy of Sciences (Dissertation title: Regulative Function of Biogenic Amines and their Analogues in Cell Proliferation).
Professional experience
1957-1960 Junior Researcher, Departament of Pathomorphology, Institute of Experimental Surgery and Hematology
1960-1961 Senior Researcher, Drug Bioassay Laboratory, Chemical-pharmaceutical Inst., Tbilisi.
Since 1961 Chief of Biological Research Laboratory, Institute of Pharmacochemistry, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi; Professor.
Since 1969 Invited Professor of cell physiology, Tbilisi State University.
Since 1990 Vice-director, Research & Development Institute of of the Pharmacochemistry.
Member of Georgian Pharmacologists Society, Georgian Oncologists Society
Scientific Degree Awarding Councils of Tbilisi State University (specialty: cytology) and Tbilisi Veterinary Institute (specialty: pharmacology).
Participation in scientific meetings
1st International Symposium of Histochemistry, Warsaw, 1963
2nd International Congress of Histocytochemistry, Frankfurt, 1964
1st USSR National Symposium ìCellular Mechanisms of Histogenesisî, Moscow, 1976
2nd USSR National Symposium ìCellular mechanisms of Histogenesisî, Tashkent, 1980
1st USSR National Symposium ìChemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology of Indole derivativesî, Tbilisi, 1983
Soviet-Indian Symposium on Natural Plant Compounds, 1983
4th USSR National Cancer Congress, Leningrad, 1986
7th USSR National Symposium ìProtein and Peptide Chemistryî, Tallinn, 1987
5th USSR National Conference ìBiology of cultured cellsî, Leningrad, 1987
4th USSR National Congress of Pathophysiology, Kishinew, 1989
Soviet-Yugoslav Conference on ìNeurotransmitters: Ontogenetic and Neurobiological aspects, Moscow, 1989
European AIRR Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia, 1999
Scientific conference on Nasodren use in treatment of sinus symptoms in Barcelona, 2008
