Bernard Robaire

Bernard Robaire received his B.A from UCLA and his Ph.D. from McGill University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, he returned to McGill to take up a joint appointment in the Departments of Pharmacology & Therapeutics and of Obstetrics & Gynaecology where he has remained and is currently a James  McGill Professor. 

In 1993, he was appointed for a five-year period as Associate Vice-Principal (Research) of McGill University.  He has served as President of the American Society of Andrology, the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, Acfas, and the McGill Association of University Teachers. He is currently Chairing the North American Testis Workshop and the International Conference on the Epididymis.  Dr. Robaire is a member of McGill’s Senate and the Medical Faculty Council. He holds the position of Consulting Editor-in-Chief of Biology of Reproduction. The results of his research activity have resulted thus far in over 210 journal articles and 70 book chapters, as well as editing or co-editing ten books.  Since opening his lab in 1977, his research has been funded continuously by MRC/CIHR, as well as by NIH, FCAR, National Foundation March of Dimes, and the FRSQ.

Honors awarded to Dr. Robaire during his career include the Award for Excellence in Reproduction from the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFAS) and the Distinguished Academic Award of the CAUT.  He received both of the highest recognitions from the American Society of Andrology (ASA): the Distinguished Service Award and the Distinguished Andrologist Award. Over the last few years, he was awarded the R. Howard Webster Foundation Award in Reproductive Medicine, the Prix du Mentor Scientifique (CRCQ), the Prix Guy Rochon (FQPPU), the Gabriel Plaa Award of Distinction of the Canadian Society of Toxicology, and in 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.