Name Rajko Igic Role Scientist | Education University of Sarajevo | |
Books Eleven Poems and One Story, Come - Live in This World, The Destiny of Germans | ||
Akademik rajko igic 50 godina rada
Rajko Igić (born 1937, Despot St. Ivan, Kingdom of Yugoslavia; now Despotovo, Serbia) is a Serbian doctor and scientist. He is best known for his anti-smoking campaign in the Former Yugoslavia and experimental work on the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE). Igić is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Republic of Srpska.
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He received his M.D. at the University of Belgrade and Ph.D. at the University of Sarajevo. He was a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Tuzla (1978-1992), and the Director of the Department of Scientific, Cultural, and Educational International Exchange for the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 1992, when he left at the start of the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His research career centered on the [Renin Angiotensin System | renin-angiotensin system]. While at the University in Tuzla in the 1980s, Igić organized an early anti-smoking campaign aimed at the territories of former Yugoslavia. Igić served as the Editor-in-Chief of a Scripta Medica (Banja Luka), a medical journal, from 2010-2013.
He also devised a new script, Slavica, a fused version of the (Cyrilic and Latin alphabet), used by speakers of the predominant southern Slavic languages (Serbo-Croatian). It was a quixotic attempt to mend the linguistic divisions among the Yugoslav ethnic groups, prior to outbreak of widespread [Balkan Wars | conflict].
He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois, where he was, until retirement, a senior scientist in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at Cook County Hospital.
Medical Books
Kako se pišu saopštenja o medicinskim istraživanjima. Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša, 1980.
(with Ranko Škrbić) Kako se pišu i publikuju saopštenja o biomedicinskim istraživanjima. Banja Luka:Grafomark, 2012. ISBN 978-99955-57-64-5
Farmakologija renin-angiotenzin sistema. Banja Luka, Medicinski fakultet, 2014.
Other Writing
The Destiny of Germans in St. Ivan and Other Writings. ISBN 1-929882-29-7
Eleven Poems and One Story. ISBN 978-1-929882-21-2
Come, Live in This World! ISBN 978-1-929882-42-7
Pictures from Serbia: My Gypsy Neighbors. ISBN 978-1-929882-53-3