Muceniece, Aina

In 1941 she graduated from Vilis Olavs Commercial School in Riga. In the same year, she was evacuated in Russia, underwent accelerated training as a nurse, and began working in a military hospital in Yaroslavl . In 1942 she began studying at the First Moscow Medical Institute, after the end of the Second World War she transferred to the Medical Faculty of the Latvian State University , which she graduated in 1948. Simultaneously, in 1946, she began working at the Institute of Microbiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR under the direction of A. M. Kirhenshteyn - first as a senior laboratory assistant, then, after defending a diploma, as scientific secretary. In 1954 she defended her thesis candidate of medical sciences. In 1959, she became a senior researcher.

In the 1960s, he became interested in ancient developments in the treatment of cancer by infecting a patient with a virus that destroys cancer cells. In 1965, she founded and headed the virotherapy laboratory for cancer, which she headed until 1989, at the Institute of Microbiology. At the same time she worked as a scientific consultant at the Stradins Clinical Hospital (up to 2003). In 1974 she received the degree of doctor of medical sciences.

The scientific achievement of Muceniece is the detection of intestinal viruses obtained from the intestines of young children, who are not only able to destroy a tumor, but also do not cause significant harm to the human body. In the laboratory of Mutseniece 60 different intestinal viruses were tested, one of them, with the most pronounced abilities to destroy cancer cells, was named RIGVIR . ^[one]

• Honorary Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1992
• Honored Scientist of Latvia, 1996
• Honorary Member of the Latvian Association of Oncologists, 2002
• Cross of Merit for special services to the Latvian state, 2005

• A.Muceniece, N.Pakalninsh. Viral neuroinfections of Coxsackie and ECHO. Riga, 1964. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR. 129 pages
• A. Mutseniece. Oncotropism of viruses and the problem of virotherapy of malignant tumors. Riga, 1972., ed. Science, 443 pp.
• A. Mutseniece, A. Ferdats. Virusoloģija (Rokas grāmata). Riga, 1985., ed. Zvaygzne. 200 p. (Latvian)
• Translated scientific book: I. P. Pavlov. Collection of works. Latvian State Publishing House. Riga, 1952., 440 pages.
• Oncotropism of viruses. Riga, Zinatne, 1969., 219 pp.
• Viruses in cancer therapy. Experimental studies. Riga. Zinatne, 1978., 204 pp.
• Immunological aspects of viral oncotropism. Riga. Zinatne, 1979., 120 pp.
• Heterogenization of tumors. Riga. Zinatne, 1980., 159 pp.
• Immunology of tumors. Riga. Zinatne, 1982., 207 pp.
• Nonspecific stimulators of tumor immunotherapy. Riga. Zinatne, 1985., 223 pp.
• Modulation of anticancer immunity in the postoperative period. Riga. Zinatne, 1988., 142 p.
• A. Mutseniece, R. Brouvere, D. Venskus, G. Feldmane. Methodical indications for the use of biological products Rigvir, Larifan in oncology and for the prevention of secondary immunodeficiency. Publisher: Aina Muceniece Society for the Development of Cancer Immunotherapy, Jelgava, 2006.
• A. Mutseniece, D. Venskus. How to evaluate immunity. Melanoma model. Publisher: Aina Muceniece Society for the Development of Cancer Immunotherapy, Riga, 2008. (Latvian) ^[2]

• Aina Muceniece's page on the site “Latvian Inventions and Inventors” (Latvian)