Etienne-Emile Baulieu

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Baulieu, Etienne-Emile (12 December 1926 -)

Émile Blum was born in Strasbourg, France, the son of physician Léon Blum, a specialist in diabets who died when his son was four.

During World War II, he was engaged in the French resistance and changed his name when his family fled to the area near Grenoble.

In 1955, he earned his doctorate of medicine at the Faculté de Médecine de Paris, after which he studied under his mentor Max Fernand Jayle in the field of steroid hormones and obtained his Ph. D. degree in 1963 at the Lycée Pasteur, Faculté de Médecine and Faculté des Sciences in Paris.

In 1963 Baulieu was named director of INSERM, and in 1970 he became a Professor of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine of Bicêtro, affiliated with University of Paris-South.

Since 2004 Baulieu is a member of the French "Ethical Advisory Committee" (Comité consultatif national d'éthique) for science and health. He also presides over the "Institute of Longevity and Aging" (Institut de la longévité et du vieillissement). In 2008, he started the Institut Professor Baulieu to foster research into healthy longevity.

Baulieu, the French biochemist and endocrinologist who discovered RU486, signed Humanist Manifesto 2000.