Garry Abelev

He studied at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (now MSU) at the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science from 1945 and graduated from the Department of Biochemistry of Plants in 1950.

[5] From 1964 to 2006 he worked as a lecturer at the Department of Virology at Faculty of Biology at the Moscow State University.

Gamaleya Federal Research Center for Epidemiology & Microbiology, his department was transferred to the N.N.

[9] In 1963, in an attempt to find specific tumour antigens, Abelev's department discovered an embryonic protein synthesised by liver cancer cells, α-fetoprotein.

On this basis, the Abelev-Tatarinov reaction was developed for immunodiagnosis of liver cancer and teratoblastoma of the ovary.