Nebojša Radunović

Nebojsa Radunovic was born on 18 May 1954 in Kosovska Mitrovica. He studied at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine, graduating in 1978 with a high average and among the leading students of his class. He took a master's degree in 1982 (mentor: academician Vladimir Kanjuh) and a doctorate in 1985 (mentor: academician Vojin Sulovic), completed specialty training in obstetrics and gynecology in 1985, and finished a narrower specialization in perinatology in 1993.

From 1979 he worked at the Institute for Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Clinical Center of Serbia. He headed prenatal diagnostics from 1991, the Department of Human Reproduction from 1998, and the institute itself from 2003 to 2009, also serving as assistant director of the Clinical Center for international cooperation.

At the Belgrade medical faculty he progressed from assistant (1987) to full professor (2004). From 2001 he led postgraduate studies in human reproduction. A Fulbright year at Mount Sinai (1990-1991) and adjunct/visiting roles at NYU, Yale, and Indiana University placed him in American academic networks while he remained based in Belgrade.

SANU and press obituaries credit Radunovic with new diagnostic approaches for early detection of embryonic and fetal disorders, pioneering "closed" intrauterine surgery, and an original technique of intrauterine fetal transfusion via the umbilical cord that improved treatment of fetal anemia. He also worked on assisted reproduction, including in vitro oocyte maturation and blastocyst culture.

His research interests included fetal cardiovascular pathophysiology, outcomes after assisted reproduction, and prediction of preterm delivery. His bibliography is cited at roughly 330 items, with books, textbooks, and international chapters, and citations in major maternal-fetal and pediatric surgery journals.

He was president of Serbia's perinatal medicine association and of the Serbian Society for Human Reproduction, and founder-president of the South East European Society for Perinatal Medicine. He served on EAPM's education committee, belonged to ESHRE, and was vice-president of MEDUOG.

Nationally he chaired the Commission for Perinatal Medicine and sat on the Ministry of Health commission for assisted reproduction. He was a corresponding member of the Medical Academy of the Serbian Medical Society from 2004.

Elected corresponding member of SANU's Department of Medical Sciences on 5 November 2009 and full member on 5 November 2015, Radunovic chaired the Academy's Committee on Human Reproduction. He also served on boards for cardiovascular pathology, diabetes research, urogenital tumors, AIDS, and the study of national minorities and human rights, and participated in Academy work on the "Serbian question" including Kosovo-related scholarly agendas.

• Serbian Medical Society charter (1987) and plaque (1991)
• Belgrade October Prize for scientific research (1993)
• Charter of the Serbian ultrasound-in-medicine association (1991)
• Macedonian Medical Society plaque (2004)
• Honorary member, Romanian Association for Perinatal Medicine (2007)
• Special University of Ankara award (2008)
• Visiting and adjunct professorships at NYU, Yale, and Indiana University

Besides faculty and postgraduate teaching in Belgrade, Radunovic appeared in Serbian medical television formats explaining fetal therapy and timing of pregnancy, including RTS morning-program segments on treatment "in mother's womb" and the Ordinacija program featuring him as an academician discussing the right time for babies. He also uploaded educational ultrasound material under his own name.

Detailed family information was not published in the first wave of September 2026 obituaries. Biographical notices emphasize his Kosovska Mitrovica birthplace and long Belgrade career; childhood schooling details for Mitrovica were not filled in by available official biographies.

Radunovic died in Belgrade on 15 September 2026 at the age of 72 (Serbian reports phrase it as "in his 73rd year"). SANU issued the public notice the same day. Cause of death was not stated in the Academy announcement or in major RTS, Tanjug, Novosti, Blic, N1, Ekspres, and KoSSev reports.

• Died: 15 September 2026, Belgrade, Serbia
• Age: 72
• Announced by: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU)
• Cause: not publicly confirmed in first obituaries
• Same-day coverage: RTS, Tanjug, Novosti, Blic, N1, Ekspres, KoSSev, Radio Kontakt Plus

Radunovic helped establish modern perinatal and fetal therapy and IVF practice inside Serbia's largest clinical system while exporting Serbian perinatal medicine into Southeast European and Mediterranean networks. SANU framed his death as a loss for the Academy and for Serbian society, stressing both his "closed" intrauterine surgery and umbilical-cord transfusion technique and his long service as teacher, institute director, and Academy member.

• Bibliography of about 330 units (SANU/press)
• Editor, Recent Advances in Perinatal Medicine (Belgrade series from 1996)
• Editorial board, Gynecology, Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine (Ankara)
• Research project leadership on pathophysiological processes in embryos and fetuses after ART (Cobiss/CRIS listings)
• Peer-reviewed work on intrauterine transfusion and prenatal management of congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (co-authored papers indexed on PubMed)

Immediate tributes took the form of SANU's formal notice and wide republication across Serbian public and commercial media on 15 September 2026. Regional Kosovo-focused outlet KoSSev stressed his Mitrovica origins; Radio Kontakt Plus filed an in-memoriam notice. Television archives of his earlier educational appearances circulated again as viewers looked up the late academician.