Background
Roy, André F. Le was born on September 30, 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Pierre Marie and Lucie Philippine (Ducrocq) L.
Roy, André F. Le was born on September 30, 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Pierre Marie and Lucie Philippine (Ducrocq) L.
Bachelor of Engineering, Yale University, 1956. Master of Science, California Institute of Technology, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts in Engineering, Applied Chemistry, Harvard University, 1967.
Chemical engineer, radiological health research activity Resident Advisor Taft Engineering Center, Cincinnati, 1958-1960. Chief chemical section Engineering group Northeastern Radiological Health Laboratory, Winchester, Massachusetts, 1963-1968. Engineer director National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, since 1969.
Coordinator numerous national and international research programs in instrumentation and biomedical engineering. Member International Board Science Counselors reviewing Life Science Division of French Atomic Energy Commission, 1985-1986. Member review committee for applications and research proposals for Chateaubriand fellowships in science and medicine and Lavoisier fellowships in engineering granted by French government, since 1985.
Initiated and organized joint National Institutes of Health-Industry Research Program in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Visiting scientist Laboratoire de Physiologie Physico-Chimique, Centre d'Études Nucléaires, Saclay, France, 1978-1980. International representative for Division of Research Services to Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, since 1984.
Member American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi.
Married Dee Ann Kittner, October 16, 1978.