Tom Rapoport Scientist

Tom Abraham Rapoport (17 June 1947) is a German-American cell biologist who studies protein transport in cells.He has been a professor at the Harvard Medical School since 1995, and an HHMI investigator since 1997. He was a member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR from 1988 until 1992 (when it was dissolved), he has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2003, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences since 2005, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.