Ninel Artsimovich

Ninel Grigoryevna Artsimovich also transliterated Arzimowitsch (January 29, 1927, Bandar-e Anzali, Gilian – May 2, 2023, Moscow) was a Soviet, Russian professor, doctor of medicine and immunology. She received the award of Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1990). Her husband was Lev Artsimovich.

Academic background and works
Nelli Georgievna Artsimovich was a graduate of the First Moscow State Medical University. After that, she worked as a surgeon and head of the surgery department from 1949–1959. From 1959 she was at the Institute of Experimental Biology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, and in 1973–1985. She was also the head of the laboratory of the BIHS research institute in 1985–2003, the head of the laboratory of immunomodulation at the Institute of Immunology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

From 1976 to 2003 she was a Professor of Biology of Moscow State University and gave a series of lectures on comparative immunology.

Artsimovich died on May 2, 2023. She was buried next to her husband at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.