Overview

• Baulieu passed away on May 30 in Paris at age 98, with his wife Simone Harari Baulieu announcing the news to AFP.
• He developed the RU486 abortion pill in 1982, enabling millions of women to access safe, non-surgical pregnancy terminations.
• Born in Strasbourg in 1926, he joined the French Resistance during World War II and later founded and led an INSERM endocrinology research unit for over three decades.
• His studies uncovered the anti-aging properties of DHEA and advanced the understanding of neurosteroids’ impact on the nervous system.
• In 2008, he established the Baulieu Institute to tackle Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative disorders and earned top honors such as the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Lasker Award.