Yefim Borisovich Berkhin (Russian: Ефим Борисович Берхин; 11 October 1921 – 2009) was a Soviet scientist, pharmacologist and researcher in the field of kidney physiology. He was a Doctor of Medical Sciences (1959), professor (1961), and first head of the Department of Pharmacology at Altay State Medical University (1956–1983).
Biography Yefim Borisovich Berkhin was born on 11 October 1921 in the village of Tatarsk, Smolensk Oblast.
Studied at the Crimean Medical Institute, graduating in 1943 during the evacuation of this university to the city of Kyzylorda (Kazakh SSR). In 1944, he was sent to the liberated Crimea as part of the sanitary inspection. In 1945, he entered the graduate school of the pharmacology department of the Crimean Medical Institute, graduated with the defense of his candidate's dissertation (1948), after which he was sent as an assistant to the Chkalovsky Medical Institute (Orenburg). In 1954, he was awarded the title of associate professor.
Heading the Department of Pharmacology at the Altai Medical Institute for almost 30 years, he created a school of scientific and pedagogical workers (B. A. Pakhmurny, Yu. I. Ivanov, G. D. Anikin, B. Ya. Varshavsky, N. B. Sidorenkova, V. M. Bryukhanov, and others).
Worked as a teacher. Scientific activity is focused on regulation of water exchange and kidney function. Under his supervision 6 doctoral and 17 candidate dissertations were completed.
He is the author of over 200 scientific publications, including monographs. Awards: medals "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945" (1945), "For Labour Valour" (1961), "For the Development of Virgin and Fallow Lands" (1964), "For Valiant Labor. In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin" (1968), (1970).
In 1989 Berkhin immigrated to the United States with his family.
Ratings In 2021, the rector of the Altai State Medical University Irina Sheremetyeva said:
Books On the mechanism of water diuresis Abstract of a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences, 1957 How medicines are created, 1967 The Construction of a medical prescription, 1967 Diuretics, 1967 Methods of experimental study of the kidneys and water-salt metabolism. [Текст] / Е. Б. Верхин ! ; Е. Б. Берхин, Ю. И. Иванов. — Барнаул : [Алт. кн. изд-во], 1972. — 199 с. : черт. : 21 см. The Kidney Physiology, 1972 Pharmacology of the kidneys and its physiological basis. — Москва : Медицина, 1979. — 336 с. граф.; 20. Secretion of organic substances in the kidney, 1979
Awards
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945) Medal "For Labour Valour" (1961) Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands" (1964) Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1968) (1970)
Jubilees In 2021, Altai State Medical University celebrated the 65th anniversary of this university and the 100th anniversary of Yefim Borisovich Berkhin.
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