Latif Ikramov

Latif Tulyaganovich Ikramov was born on 18 February 1932 in Tashkent. He is a pharmacist and specialist in toxicological chemistry. In 1954 he graduated with distinction from the Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute and was sent on a sponsored postgraduate course at the Moscow Pharmaceutical Institute, which he completed in 1958.

In 1959 he defended his candidate’s dissertation on the isolation and detection of cobalt compounds in forensic-chemical analysis and became a Candidate of Pharmaceutical Sciences. From that year he worked at the Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute as an assistant in the forensic chemistry course, in 1961–1967 as an associate professor and head of the toxicological chemistry course, and from 1967 as head of the toxicological chemistry department. In 1978 he was given the title of professor on the strength of his research, without defending a doctoral dissertation.

At his initiative, permanent all-Union specialisation courses for forensic chemists were set up at the institute in 1966; more than five hundred specialists from over a hundred cities took them. Under his supervision the department developed a line of forensic-chemical research on organophosphorus pesticides, and 15 candidate’s and 2 doctoral dissertations were completed.

Ikramov is the author of more than three hundred scientific publications and of three Uzbek-language textbooks on forensic chemistry, and co-author of over forty teaching aids. The textbook “Toxicological Chemistry” was prepared under his general editorship. He took part in preparing the “Medicinal Preparations” section of the Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia and co-authored the reference book “Salomatlik” (“Health”).

He combined research and teaching with administrative and public work: he served as the institute’s academic secretary and vice-rector for academic and research affairs, and sat on the board of the All-Union Scientific Society of Forensic Physicians, the society of forensic physicians of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Health’s attestation commission and the board of the pharmaceutical society. He was awarded the Orders of the Badge of Honour and of the Friendship of Peoples and labour medals, and holds the “Excellent Health Worker” badge.