Robin taught biochemistry and carired out research activities at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, U.K. from 1962-1980, collaborating with, among others, the Nobel Prize winners Frederick Sanger, César Milstein, Dorothy Hodgkin and Aaron Klug.

Some important dates:
-Scientific assistant United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1959-1962
-Researcher Medical Research Council Laboratory Molecular Biology, Cambridge, 1962-1966
-PhD from Cambridge University in 1966
-Staff member Laboratory Molecular Biophysics, Oxford, England, 1966-1972
-Fellow University College, 1968-1973
-Tutor Christ Church, 1973-1980

Robin arrived in Geneva in 1980.
He was appointed professor at the Department of Medical Biochemistry of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva which he directed until his retirement in 2005.
From 1994 to 2000 he was president of the School of Basic Medicine

In 1998 he co-funded the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
He was co-founder of three biotech companies: Gryphon Sciences (1994), Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) (1998) and Geneva Proteomics (GeneProt) (2000) where he was  
He served for ten years as a member of the Geneva government’s Council for Regional Economic Development.

2002: Shared the “Man of the Year, Switzerland” award of the Swiss financial newspaper L’agefi 
2005:  Recipient of the American Peptide Society’s Makineni Award

Page with pictures of Robin at a conference he gave in 2007 at the diving club of Plan les Ouates
Interview (in French) of Robin on life, intelligence and scientific research (2007) 
Small article on Robin Offord in Le Temps, 27/10/2000
16th American Peptide Symposium closing banquet, July 1, 1999

Entry about Robin in Prabook, a bibliographical encyclopedia
The Swiss-Prot entry of a protein that was named in honor of Robin at the occasion of his retirement

March 2021:
Obituary notice
L'intelligence au service du coeur. Article from Aurore Bui in Bilan