Bernard Robaire

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
3655 Promenade Sir William Osler
Montréal, QC, Canada, H3G 1Y6
Tel: (514) 398 3630
Fax: (514) 398 7120
E-mail:
bernard.robaire@mcgill.ca

Bernard Robaire received his BA in Bacteriology from UCLA and his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Therapeutics from McGill University.  After doing a Postdoctoral Fellowship (NIH) at Johns Hopkins University, he returned to McGill in 1977 to take up a joint appointment in the Departments of Pharmacology & Therapeutics and of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 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 is currently a member of Senate and has served as President of the American Society of Andrology, the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, Acfac, the North American Testis Workshop, and the McGill Association of University Teachers. He is currently Editor in Chief of Biology of Reproduction.

Dr. Robaire’s research interests focus on male infertility, contraception, androgen action, male reproductive ageing, male mediated developmental toxicity, reproductive toxicology.  The results of his research activity have resulted thus far in over 190 journal articles and 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.