Biography

Born December 12 1926 in Strasbourg. Married, 3 children, 8 grandchildren.

Education and professional career

  • Lycée Pasteur, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science, Paris
  • 1951-1955 : Intern at Paris Hospitals
  • 1955 : Doctor of Medicine
  • 1955-1957 : Senior Registrar
  • 1958 : Associate Professor of Biochemistry
  • 1961-1962 : Visiting Scientist , Columbia University, Department of Biochemistry, Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • 1963 : Doctor of Science
  • 1970-1993 : Professor of Biochemistry (Bicêtre Faculty of Medicine, Paris-Sud University)
  • 1970-1997 : Head of the Hormonal Biochemistry Department at Bicêtre Hospital
  • 1993-1998 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Foundations and Principles of Human Reproduction
  • 1963-1997 : Director of research unit 33 of the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm) Lab.
    Hormones
  • 1963-1997 : Roussel Uclaf, consultant

Scientific bodies and other functions

  • Scientific boards 
    • Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale Française (former Chairman)
    • Inserm (former Chairman)
    • Center national de recherches médicales de Franceville
    • Gabon (former Chairman)
    • Institut de recherches fondamentales du Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (French Atomic Energy Commission)
    • Inra Animal Physiology Department
    • Several CNRS and Fondation de France laboratories Ligand (San Diego)
    • Exelgyn (Paris)
  • Member of the organizing committee of the Karolinska Symposia on Reproductive Endocrinology
  • Former French Scientific Chairman of the NCI-Inserm program : Cancer and Hormones
  • Former member of STAG-Scientific Advisory Board, OM Special Program in Human Reproduction
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors, Centre pour l'étude et la conservation du sperme (CECOS) de Bicêtre
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
  • Director, Institut fédératif de recherche de l'hôpital de Bicêtre : hormones and genetics
  • Member of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee for Life Sciences
  • Editorial boards of several French and international journals

Selected bibliography

  • Les Hypercorticismes surrénaliens

    Baulieu É.-É., Les Hypercorticismes surrénaliens, Éditions Masson, 1955.

  • Hormones

    Baulieu É.-É., Hormones, Hermann Publisher in Arts and Sciences, 1979.

  • Génération Pilule

    Baulieu É.-É., Génération Pilule, Éditions Odile Jacob, 1989.

  • The Abortion Pill

    Baulieu É.-É., The Abortion Pill, Éditions Simon and Shuster, 1990

  • Hormones

    Baulieu É.-É. et Kelly P., Hormones, Éditions Hermann, 1990.