Ljubisav Rakić (; 11 April 1931 – 14 October 2022) was a Serbian neurobiologist, professor and academic.

Life and career

Rakić was born in Sarajevo on 11 April 1931, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His parents were teachers. He graduated from the Belgrade Medical School in 1956. After graduating, he became an Assistant Professor for physiology and biochemistry at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

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. In 1969, he was already a Full Professor. Since 1971, he was a Professor for postgraduate studies in neurobiology at University of Belgrade. Rakić was the founder of the International brain research laboratory in Kotor where lots of famous scientists worked. Rakić was on specialization at Brain Research Institute of the

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and at the Institute of Academician P.K. Anohin in Moscow. Between 1960 and 1980, he was a Visiting Professor of the University of California and, during the 80's, at the

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in Houston. Rakić was a member of Department of medical sciences at the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

, Department of medical and biological sciences at Serbian Scientific Society, Russian Academy of Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences, Eurasian Academy of Sciences, International Organization for Brain Research and other international societies of physiologists, biochemists, neurochemists and neuropharmacologists. Rakić's chief area of scientific research was in CNS and cancer and genetic therapy of tumors. Rakić died in Belgrade on 14 October 2022, at the age of 91.

References

1931 births 2022 deaths University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine alumni Academic staff of the University of Belgrade Serbian biochemists Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Scientists from Sarajevo {{Serbia-academic-bio-stub