Katibov Magomed Islambegovich graduated from the Military Medical Faculty of the Samara State Medical University in 1997. He worked in various medical and prophylactic institutions of the Russian Ministry of Defense (the final place is the Central Hospital of the Space Forces).

He defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences in 2005 in MONIKI n.a. M.F. Vladimirsky (Moscow). In 2009 he started studying at the doctoral research institute of urology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, after which he defended his doctoral thesis in 2012 on the "Clinical and economic analysis of the results of surgical methods for the treatment of localized prostate cancer" problem.

Since 2012 till present he has worked in the Research Institute of Urology and Interventional Radiology n.a. N.A. Lopatkin as the chief research officer.

The main directions of scientific research:

• Reconstructive urology: strictures of the urethra and ureters, urogenital fistulas, small capacity of the bladder;
• Functional urology: urinary incontinence;
• Diseases of the prostate: BPH, prostate cancer, prostatitis;
• Organization of medical care for urological diseases.

M.I. Katibov is a member of the Russian Society of Urology board, a member of the European Association of Urology, a member of the Russian Cancer Society, a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Urology and Interventional Radiology n.a. N.A. Lopatkin, a member of the Commission on Medicine and Health of the Public Council at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Dagestan under the President of the Russian Federation.

He is the author of 124 scientific works, including 1 monograph, 2 teaching aids and 1 rationalization proposal. Under his scientific supervision, 3 candidate theses have been defended.