To the 60th anniversary of Dmitry Borisovich Nikityuk

December 26, 2022 marked the 60th anniversary of the famous anatomist and anthropologist Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikityuk D.B., President of the Scientific Society of Anatomists, Histologists and Embryologists of Russia. The article describes the stages of the scientific path of D.B. Nikityuk in the field of morphological exocrinology, devoted to the functional morphology of the glands of the mucous membranes, which made it possible to describe and prove the patterns of morphogenesis of these anatomical formations, in the field of using anatomical and anthropometric approaches to assess the nutritional status of a healthy and sick person, which is especially important for identifying a constitutional predisposition to the development of a number of alimentary-dependent diseases.