Her entire family was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and only she survived. The future scientist began her scientific work while still a student at the Department of General Pathology of the School of Medicine of Kharkiv University under the guidance of D.E. Alpern. For many years, R.U. Lipschitz has been studying the pathology of the regulation of the endocrine and neurohumoral systems, as well as the mechanisms of pathological processes, especially inflammation and allergy. She published more than 160 scientific papers. She supervised 2 doctoral and 9 associate degree theses. Together with academician E.D. Goldberg and professor O.M. Digai, she wrote two monographs, many articles and two editions of the textbook.
R.U. Lipschitz was a talented teacher and educator, a brilliant lecturer. She paid great attention to improving teaching, updating the lecture course and practical classes, demonstrations, introducing scientific research methods into the educational process, integrating teaching, and student research. For many years, she was the curator of the theoretical sections of the student scientific society.
She was a member of the International Society of Pathophysiology, the Board of the Society of Pathophysiologists of Ukraine, since 1968 she was the permanent head of the Kharkiv Society of Pathophysiologists, and a member of the Board of the Kharkiv Medical Society.
Thanks to her professionalism, scientific and public service, Professor R.U. Lipschitz was nominated by the American Biographical Institute for the titles "Woman of the Year 2001, 2003" and "Great woman of the 21st Century". Her name is included in the monumental biographical publication Great Minds of the 21st Century.
She had an exceptional talent of foresight, was a brilliant and original scientist who combined excellent intuition, keen observation, specificity and the ability to make objective, scientific analysis of a pathologist-theorist with the skills of an experimenter and researcher. She was a person of exceptional honor and decency, impeccable morality, and modesty. Honesty, great inner culture, nobility of soul, and integrity won her universal respect and love.
