• Robert Chapin

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    Senior Research Fellow

    Drug Safety R&D, Groton

    After 18 years at NIEHS, Bob is thrilled to be in Pfizer’s Developmental and Reproductive Tox Center of Expertise where he works furiously helping to develop predictive tox assays for developmental and reproductive toxicities. Bob is married and they have two grown daughters. He finds spiritual inspiration in gardening and sailing.

    Key Areas of Research

    male and female reproductive tox, and embryofetal developmental toxicity.

    Projects

    Working on in vitro methods for testis damage assessment, and currently working on defining Leydig cell responses to Prolactin.

    Professional Affiliations

    Andrology Society, Society of Toxicology, AAAS, NYAS, American Solar Energy Society

    Education

    BA - Earlham College, Richmond, IN PhD - UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC

    Awards

    NIH Director's Award, 1995 American Society of Andrology Young Andrologist of the Year, 1993 Repro and Developmental Specialty Section of SOT's Achievement Award, 2009 Pfizer Achievement Award, 2010

    Published Articles

    >130

    Favorite Quote

    As a young student (Einstein) never did well with rote learning. And later as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing but from his imagination and creativity. He could construct complex equations, but more importantly, he knew that math is the language that nature uses to describe her wonders. So he could visualize how equations were reflected in realities – how the electromagnetic field equations discovered by James Clerk Maxwell, for example, would manifest themselves to a boy riding alongside a light beam. As he once declared “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. And that approach required him to embrace nonconformity. “Long live impudence”, he once exulted. “It is my guardian angel in this world.” Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe 2007