Nuru Bayramov (; born 1963) is a surgeon, a professor and head of first department of surgical diseases in Azerbaijan Medical University.
Early life, education and career Nuru Bayramov was born on 17 September 1963 in the Narimanli village of Basargechar region of Goycha. He went to Narimanli Village Secondary School in 1970, and after graduating from high school in 1980, entered the first year of treatment and prevention faculty of Azerbaijan Medical University in the same year. He graduated from the faculty with honors from Lenin and majoring in surgery.
From 1986 to 1988, he passed a clinical internship at the first Department of Surgical Diseases of the Azerbaijan Medical University. In 1991 he entered the postgraduate course and completed his postgraduate study at the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University with a degree in Research Doctor.
In 1991, Nuru Bayramov received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Medicine degree in I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University where he defended his thesis on "Application of combined lasers in the treatment of chronic osteomyelitis".
From 1991 to 1994, he worked as the associate professor assistant of the first Department of Surgical Diseases of the Azerbaijan Medical University. During the first Karabakh War, he was active in providing surgical treatment in Tartar military hospital and introduced innovative treatment methods for cold related injuries during the Khojaly Massacre.
In 1994 he was sent to the Republic of Turkey to conduct scientific research on liver surgery and transplantation and to practice laparoscopic, gastrointestinal, and oncologic surgery. Until 2000, he had done research and practice at the Advanced Specialty Hospital of Turkey, Organ Transplant Hospital of Başkent University and Department of Surgical Oncology of Ankara University.
Between the years of 1996 and 1998, he served as an associate professor in the Department of General Surgery of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University and Kırıkkale University.
In 1999, he defended his thesis on “Prediction and prevention of complications after liver resection” and received his degree of Doctor in Medical Sciences. In 2000 he was supervising the doctors and nurses of Central Clinic Hospital who were sent to expertise in Turkey. Since 2001, he has been active in the organization of Central Clinical Hospital and Central Customs Hospital, personnel training, establishment of general, laparoscopic, hepatobiliary, and transplant surgery.
In 2001 he served as associate professor in the first Department of Surgical Diseases of Azerbaijan Medical University, in 2004 as a full professor; and in 2012 he was elected head of the department. Between the years of 2015 and 2016, he directed the Surgical Education Hospital of Azerbaijan Medial University. In 2014, he was elected a correspondent member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
Between 2018 and 2020, as a member of the working group in the Health Committee of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan, he actively participated in the development of the legislation "Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs.
In 2020, he took an active part in the training, organization and implementation of surgical services to the wounded of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war at the Azerbaijan Medical University's clinic of surgery, the Central Hospital of the State Customs Committee (Azerbaijan) and central hospital of State Security Service (Azerbaijan). Between 2020 and 2021, he provided consulting assistance in solving surgical, transplantation and hepatological problems in patients with coronavirus, participated in the organization of scientific and practical activities.
Activities
Scientific activity Nuru Bayramov's scientific career started in his student days. He has been a member of the Student Scientific Community since the third year of the university, the chairman of the Student Scientific Society of the Faculty of Treatment and Prevention between 1984 and 1986, and has repeatedly spoken at conferences of Student Scientific Societies in Azerbaijan and various countries of the USSR. While he was a student, he published 11 scientific papers. Given his excellent studentship and active involvement in research, he was awarded the Lenin Scholarship, the highest scholarship of the institute, in 1985. He continued his scientific activity during clinical internship and received a patent certificate for the new treatment of Pilonidal sinus disease.
His later research activity continued between 1988 and 1991 as a postgraduate study in Department of General Surgery in I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. He has done scientific work on the use of lasers in surgery under the guidance of professors V.I. Gostishev and V.A. Vertyanov.
Between 1991 and 1994, he continued research of the use of lasers and water-soluble based ointments for treatment of gunshot and cold injuries in Azerbaijan Medical University. Results of these studies were published in some articles and doctoral theses.
His next research activity continued from 1994 to 2000 at the Advanced Specialty Hospital of Turkey, Başkent University, Ankara University and Van Yüzüncü Yıl University. In addition to being specialized in these education and research centers, he has performed clinical and experimental studies on transplantation, liver resection, and laparoscopic surgery. Liver resection in live donors, water-jet for liver resection, (CUSA) and argon coagulation in the cirrhotic liver resection, effects of lasers and dalargin on liver regeneration, liver regeneration after resection, prevention of postresection complications, complication after laparoscopic surgery, classification of the gunshot injuries of the liver have been his main research topics of this period. He conducted an experimental study on the use of waterjet in liver resection at the Van Yüzüncü Yıl University in 1997 and was able to specify some parameters of the water jet (diameter and pressure). Several articles and one doctoral thesis on this topic are defended.
As a result of clinical and experimental studies on liver resection and transplantation he has published 2 monographs and 31 articles. In 1999 he defended his thesis on "Prediction and prevention of complications after liver resection" and received a scientific degree of "Doktor Nauk in Medical Sciences".
Back in 2000, Nuru Bayramov returned to Azerbaijan, where he previously worked as an associate professor at the Azerbaijan Medical University, and currently head of the Department of I Surgical Diseases. The main areas of his research during this period are liver resection, liver and kidney transplantation, laparoscopic and metabolic surgery, stem cells and genetic studies. Under his leadership, dissertations have been defended on the topics of laparoscopic appendectomy, laparoscopic fundoplication, laparoscopic biliary tract examinations, laparoscopic choledochal surgeries, laparoscopic hernia repair, laparoscopic simultaneous surgeries, stem cells in colon polyps, gene polymorphism in colon cancer, elastography and iodine polymers in thyroid nodules. Dissertation work is ongoing on biliary complications in liver transplantation, microRNAs, liver dysfunction and histones, elastography in liver pathologies, application of artificial intelligence, and bariatric surgeries in obesity. Grant projects on gene polymorphism in cirrhosis, elastography and fatty liver have been adopted. For the first time in Azerbaijan, it was used by stem cells for liver disease.
He has been active in scientific and organizational work in Azerbaijan and around the world. In Azerbaijan he actively participated in defining and promoting pillar priorities of medical science (stem cells and regenerative medicine, genomics, molecular biology, high technologies and medicine, evidence-based medicine, translational medicine, etc.). He has been organizing 5-6 international conferences every year since 2014, including Baku-Malatya Transplant Days, Turkey-Azerbaijan Hepatology Course, and regular conferences on bariatric surgery, endocrine surgery, colorectal surgery.
He is the founder and first president of the Transcaspian International Society of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgeons. By January 2026, he participated in 271 congresses (participation in 107 congresses, 111 speeches, organization of 53 congresses), published more than 500 works (51 books, 14 methodological recommendations, 253 articles, 252 theses). The scientist is the author of 14 inventions and rationalization proposals. Under his guidance, 8 dissertations were defended. He is a participant in about 20 international multicenter studies. His Hi index as of 03.01.2026 is 12 on Google Scholar, 8 on Research Gate, 7 on Scpopus, and 5 on Web of Science. He is a participant in two grant projects. He is currently continuing his research on organ transplantation, laparoscopic, metabolic surgery, genetics, artificial intelligence, stem cells, and multicenter research.
Practical activities Nuru Bayramov has actively involved in the process of modernization and development of clinical, scientific medicine and medical education in Azerbaijan. In the 1990s, he was involved in advanced care of victims in the first Karabakh War and in frontline military hospitals. He has taken active part in the treatment of civilians who were forced to leave their homes in the Khojaly Massacre in 1992 and had frostbite of their hands and feet and successfully implemented a new method of treatment. In January 1994, he worked at the Military Desert Hospital No. 2 in Tartar region and treated numerous wounded soldiers.
He also took an active part in the training, organization and implementation of surgical services to the wounded of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war at the Azerbaijan Medical University's clinic of Surgery, the Central Hospital of the State Customs Committee (Azerbaijan) and central hospital of State Security Service (Azerbaijan).
He has been active in the organization of general, laparoscopic and liver surgery at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University and Kırıkkale University.
He has been pioneering in the development and implementation of international clinical protocols, laying the foundations of laparoscopic, transplantation, liver and bariatric-metabolic surgery in Azerbaijan.
He has actively participated in establishment of laparoscopyc, transplantation centers and realization of the liver and kidney transplantation in prime hospitals in Azerbaijan such as, Central Clinic Hospital, M. Naghiyev Emergency and Medical Care Hospital, Central Customs Hospital and Azerbaijan Medical University Surgical Educational Hospital.
He has broken grounds in healthcare industry in Azerbaijan by leading first stem cell transplantation, major liver resections, hepatectomy including (ALPPS) surgery, damage control surgery, laparostomy and mesh closure surgery, advanced laparoscopic operations such as, common bile duct exploration and resection, choledocho-duodenostomy, choledocho-yeyunostomy, fundoplication, liver, pancreas, gastric, bowel, colon resections, portal vein ligations, gasto-yeyunostomy, splenectomy, hysterectomy, cystectomy, renal operations and sympathectomy, thoracoscopic phrenic nervectomy (first time in the world) and first organ transplantation in Azerbaijan Medical University (2015).
His initiate surgeons have an important role in the development and wide application of laparoscopic surgery in Azerbaijan and around the world.
Nuru Bayramov was a participant and international expert at “Live transplantation for five patients at the same time” held at Inonu University's Liver Transplantation Institute (Malatya, Turkey) which was awarded and granted by Guinness World Records Title.
Pedagogical activities