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