Professor Mladen Vranic - Distinguished specialist in endocrinology and metabolism

 

Mladen Vranic

Cycling from Scilla to Charybdis: The Unsteady Odyssey of Metabolic Regulation

Professor Mladen Vranic is distinguished researcher and educator in medical sciences (endocrinology and metabolism) and former chair of physiology, where 85 years ago insulin was discovered. He earned the title of Honorary Medical Doctor Institute, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the only Canadian who got most prestigious awards from American Diabetes association, and 2007 inaugural life achievement award from Canadian Diabetes association.