Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Rajko Igić (born 1937, in 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). Rajko is an \"Akademik\" (Academy of Sciences and Arts, RS). He was elected on December 22, 2012.Igić 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 a prescient anti-smoking campaign aimed at the territories of former Yugoslavia. Around this time, he also devised a combined alphabet \"Slavica.\" The alphabet was a fused version of two existing ones (Cyrilic and Latin alphabet) used by two predominant Balkan languages, Serbian and Croatian (then jointly called 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].Igić served as the Editor-in-Chief of a Scripta Medica (Banja Luka), a medical journal, from 2010-2013. 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."@en }
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- Rajko_Igić abstract "Rajko Igić (born 1937, in 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). Rajko is an \"Akademik\" (Academy of Sciences and Arts, RS). He was elected on December 22, 2012.Igić 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 a prescient anti-smoking campaign aimed at the territories of former Yugoslavia. Around this time, he also devised a combined alphabet \"Slavica.\" The alphabet was a fused version of two existing ones (Cyrilic and Latin alphabet) used by two predominant Balkan languages, Serbian and Croatian (then jointly called 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].Igić served as the Editor-in-Chief of a Scripta Medica (Banja Luka), a medical journal, from 2010-2013. 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.".