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Rajko Igić (born 1937) is a Serbian doctor, scientist, and writer. He is best known for discovery of angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) in the retina, the anti-tobacco movement in Yugoslavia, and a variety of non-scientific texts. Igić is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Republic of Srpska.
Igić was born in The Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He received his M.D. at the University of Belgrade and Ph.D. at the University of Sarajevo.
He was a founding university 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 (1990-1992), at that time a constituent state of Yugoslavia.
His research career included stints in the United States and centered on the renin–angiotensin system. While at the University of Tuzla in the 1980s, Igić organized an early anti-smoking campaign aimed at the territories of former Yugoslavia.
In the 1980s, he also devised a new script, Slavica, a fused version of the (Cyrillic and Latin alphabet), used by speakers of the predominant South Slavic languages (Serbo-Croatian). It was a quixotic attempt to mend the linguistic divisions among the Yugoslav ethnic groups, prior to outbreak of the Yugoslav Wars. Igić served as the Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Scripta Medica (Banja Luka) from 2010-2013.
He was, until retirement in 2007, a senior scientist in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at Cook County Hospital. Since then, Igić published several poetry books in English and Serbian.
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