Malika Abdullahodjaeva

Malika Samatovna Abdullahodjaeva (; 28 November 1932 – 26 June 2018) was a Soviet and Uzbek pathologist, a full member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan and a Hero of Uzbekistan.

Early life and education Abdullahodjaeva was born on 28 November 1932 in Moscow in a family of students of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East.

Abdullahodjaeva graduated from Tashkent secondary school No. 110 in 1950 with a golden medal, the medical faculty of the Tashkent State Medical Institute (TashGosMI) (1956, with honors), and postgraduate studies at the Brain Institute of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (laboratory of histochemistry) in 1960.

From 1972 to 1997, Abdullahodjaeva was the chief pathologist of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

In 1995, she was elected a corresponding member, and in 2000 a full member (academician) of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.

Abdullahodjaeva is an author of many guidelines and manuals, including for foreign students, and an atlas for students of the Faculty of Dentistry. From 1997 to 1999 Abdullahodjaeva published the first Uzbek two-volume textbook for third-year students of medical universities, Fundamentals of Human Pathology.