Richard Robitaille is a full professor at the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Medicine at the Department of Neuroscience.

His research interests include the study of the role of glial modulation in synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, interactions of glial cells during the synapse during the formation and the aging of synapse, the role of those interactions during aging of the synapse and contribution of glial cells in the malfunctioning of neuromuscular junctions in Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS).