Klavdiya Kuzmina

Klavdiya Kuzmina (1923 to 2008) was a Soviet and Russian scientist and Doctor of Medical Sciences who taught at the Saratov State Medical University, born in Tbilisi. During the Second World War she worked as a nurse in an evacuation hospital. She graduated from the Saratov State Medical University in 1948, earned her candidate degree in 1952, served as assistant dean from 1960 to 1974 and defended her doctoral thesis in 1970. From 1974 to 1990 she sat on the specialised scientific councils of the Microbe research institute and the Saratov Medical Institute, and she headed the Department of Biology at the university. She wrote 9 monographs and 170 papers and made her reputation with a book on therapy with bee honey and venom that has been reprinted many times.