E.E. Baulieu

E.E. Baulieu has focused most of his research on steroid hormones and their antagonists, looking at their effects in reproduction, aging, cancer and the nervous system. He is also world-renowned as the inventor of RU-486, known as the “morning-after” pill.

As an MD and Ph.D., Baulieu headed the unit at INSERM (French National Institute for Health and Medical Research) for the study of molecular metabolism of steroids from 1963 to 1997. He was Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Paris from 1970 to 1993, and then elected Professor at the Collège de France as the Chair of Human Reproduction. He was elected an Adjunct Professor at Scripps Institute in May 2006.

Dr. Baulieu is former President of the French Academy of Sciences, a member of both the French Academy of Medicine and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and is a Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur. He is author of numerous publications and has been honoured with prizes such as the Grand Prix Scientifique from the Medical Research Foundation (Paris, 1995) and the Lasker Prize (USA, 1989).