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Mladen Vranic, O.C., O.Ont, MD, DSc, FRSC, FRCP(C), FCAHS, born April 3, 1930 is a Croatian-born diabetes researcher, is best known for his work in tracer methodology, exercise and stress in diabetes, the metabolic effects of hormonal interactions, glucagon physiology, extrapancreatic glucagon, the role of the direct and indirect metabolic effects of insulin and the prevention of hypoglycemia. Vranic has been recognized by a number of national and international awards for his research contributions, mentoring and administration including the Orders of Canada (Officer) and Ontario. == Personal life and education == Vranic was born in 1930 to Vladimir Vranic and Ana Vranic in Zagreb, Croatia. His Jewish father converted to Christianity in 1920 and his mother converted upon marriage, but they were both non-observant. His father was a professor at the Faculty of Economics, Engineering and Sciences, and Dean at the School of Economics and Engineering at the University of Zagreb. His mother ran a successful beauty salon in Zagreb. Vranic’s immediate family escaped from the Holocaust due to the Italians' humane treatment of Jews. After the collapse of Italy, his family escaped with a partisan boat to Vis, an island governed by Allied Forces and Croatian partisans, and then on a British military ship to Taranto, Italy, which was already under supervision by the Allied Forces. During the last year of the war, his father joined the partisans. After the war, his family returned to Zagreb where Vranic completed high school, medical school (1955) and received a D.Sc in Physiology at the University of Zagreb in 1962. Vranic was invited to be the last post-doctoral fellow of Charles Best, a co-discoverer of insulin.〔 He moved up quickly in the ranks, being promoted to assistant professor in 1965, associate professor in 1968 and full professor in 1972 at the University of Toronto Department of Physiology. Vranic was Chair of the Department of Physiology from 1991 to 1995. In 1978 he was cross-appointed to professor in the Faculty of Medicine. In 1976-1977 he was invited professor at the University of Geneva during a sabbatical leave and a visiting research fellow of Merton College at the University of Oxford. From 1973-1978 he was appointed member of the Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is an adjunct professor at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Vranic is also a member of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Department of Medicine and a fellow at the Senior Scholar’s College at the University of Toronto.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mladen Vranic )〕 His late wife, Magda Vranic, was an assistant professor in rehabilitation medicine at the University of Toronto. She died of breast cancer at the age of 50. Together, they had two daughters, Iva, who is a lawyer at the Bank of Nova Scotia, and Maja, who died of leukemia at the age of 11 months. Vranic remarried Linda Vranic, an expert consultant at Magnus Associates with whom he has two daughters, Claire, director at the Imperial Bank of Commerce and Anne Vranic, a publicist at Shaw Media. In addition to his scientific interests, he is passionate about classical music and literature and innovative movies and theatre. In his youth he boxed, rowed, biked, trained in Judo, mountain climbed and downhill skied. He continues to swim, bike, cross-country ski and exercise at home. Currently, he is writing a memoir about his experiences during WWII and immigrating to Canada. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mladen Vranic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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