Sarah Kimmins, Ph.D.

Full Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, CRCHUM, Université de Montréal
Director of the ODISÉ network

Dr. Sarah Kimmins is a Full Professor in the in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at the University of Montreal, Canada and her research team is located at the Hospital Research Center of the University of Montreal (CRCHUM). She was awarded a Junior then Senior Canada Research Chair as a professor at McGill University, Montreal (2005-2022). Her achievements in reproduction and fertility have been recognized with multiple international research awards. She was the co-director of the McGill Center for Research in Reproduction and Development, served on numerous international society committees as Chair and as an Executive Council Member. She was the Andrology Chair for the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, is a working group member of the international Male Reproductive Health Initiative funded by the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology and is on the Executive Council of the Canadian Epigenetics and Environment Health Research Consortium. She has published her work in Science, Nature, Nature Communications and Developmental Cell. Her research focus is paternal health and how environmental exposures (diet, BMI, toxicants) alter fertility, clinical outcomes, the sperm epigenome, embryo development and health of offspring. Her research has been featured in more than 100 national and international popular press publications including: Time magazine, the New York Times, the Economist, the LA Times, the Washington Post, and the Times UK. Her mission is to drive research and policy that invests in human health before birth, to give each child the best start in life. groups.