Shamil Omarov

Shamil Omarov (1936 to 2020) was a Russian pharmacologist from Dagestan, a Doctor of Medical Sciences and a distinguished professor at the Dagestan State Medical University. He graduated from the Dagestan State Medical Institute in 1961, earned his candidate degree at the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod in 1969 as a student of Nikolay Artemov, and defended his doctoral thesis at RUDN University in Moscow in 1980. From 1988 he headed the Department of Pharmacology at the Dagestan State Medical University. He wrote 15 monographs and more than 400 scientific articles, including books on apitherapy, the medical use of bee products, and he chaired the Society of Pharmacologists of Dagestan.