Miodrag Radulovacki
| Miodrag Radulovacki | |
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| Born | 28 April 1933 Parage, Serbia |
| Died |
(aged 81) Belgrade, Serbia |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Fields | Neuropharmacology, Sleep and sleep disorders, Sleep-related breathing disorders |
| Institutions |
University of Belgrade, Serbia UCLA – Brain Research Institute, 1964-1965 University of Khartoum, Sudan, 1967-1970 College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), 1970 - 2014 |
| Education | Karlovci High School, Serbia |
| Alma mater | Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, Serbia, (MD), (Ph.D.) |
| Known for |
Adenosine Sleep Theory, 1984 Pharmacological Approaches in the Treatment of Sleep Apnea Yugoslav Student Summer Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Champaign-Urbana, 1990-2000 The Miodrag Radulovacki Family Prize for Excellence in Basic Sciences at the UIC College of Medicine, 2005 |
| Notable awards | Inventor of the Year Award, 2010, College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2003, Belgrade, Serbia |
Miodrag (Misha) Radulovacki, MD, PhD (Serbian Cyrillic: Миодраг Радуловачки; Serbian Latin: Miodrag Radulovački), was an American scientist and inventor of Serbian descent. He was Professor of Pharmacology in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Dr. Radulovacki's significant research accomplishments include: (1) the Adenosine Sleep Theory, and (2) pioneering pharmacological studies for the treatment of sleep apnea, accomplished together with his longtime research collaborator, David W. Carley, (Professor of Medicine at the UIC). Drs. Radulovacki and Carley invented several drug therapies for the treatment of sleep apnea which have been patented by the UIC. As a result, the UIC recognized them as the 2010 "Inventors of the Year." During his long academic career at the UIC, Dr. Radulovacki published more than 170 scientific papers. Dr. Radulovacki was also a long-time Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Miodrag Radulovacki was born on April 28, 1933, in Parage, a village in northwestern Serbia. Both of his parents were elementary school teachers. Dr. Radulovacki's father was also his first grade teacher. At the beginning of World War II, Dr. Radulovacki's father was drafted into the Yugoslav Army and was later taken prisoner by the invading Germans. From 1941 to 1944, Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia, was occupied by the German armed forces.
In 1943, when Dr. Radulovacki was 10 years old, he moved to Sremski Karlovci after his mother accepted a teaching position in the town. Sremski Karlovci (also known as Karlovci), a historic baroque Serbian town on the banks of the Danube River, had been home to the Radulovacki family for over 200 years. Dr. Radulovacki attended Karlovci High School or "Gymnasium," which is the oldest high school in Serbia. Karlovci High School's famous patron was the Russian czar, Peter the Great, who sent the school its first teachers and text books. Dr. Radulovacki called Karlovci Gymnasium the “Serbian Cambridge and Oxford”. Dr. Radulovacki graduated as valedictorian of the Karlovci High School Class of 1951. During his high school years, Dr. Radulovacki developed a deep interest in research and discoveries. And, in order to pursue the best clinical research opportunities, Dr. Radulovacki enrolled in the University of Belgrade School of Medicine.
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