Research Areas:
Membrane Biology, Cell Biology, and Structural Biology

Prof. Tom Rapoport received his PhD from Humboldt University, Berlin in 1972. Before joining the Harvard Medical School as Professor of Cell Biology in 1995, he was Professor of Cell Biology and group leader at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine. He was appointed Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in 1997.

Prof. Rapoport’s research areas include membrane biology, cell biology, and structural biology. He is interested in the mechanism by which proteins are transported across membranes and how organelles form and maintain their characteristic shapes.

Prof. Rapoport is a member of the US and German National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.