Tom Rapoport

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Tom Rapoport
Humboldt University
Employers
Known forEarly development of metabolic control analysis; the endoplasmic reticulum
Parents
RelativesMichael Rapoport (brother)

Tom Abraham Rapoport (born June 17, 1947)

Cincinnati, Ohio, he grew up in East Germany. In 1995 he accepted an offer to become a professor at Harvard Medical School. In 1997 he became an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is a member of the American and German
National Academies of Science.

Biography

Rapoport was born in Cincinnati in 1947.

metabolic control theory on which they submitted a joint 'habilitation' thesis.[3] At the same time he worked with Sinaida Rosenthal, a former student of his father, on cloning the insulin gene from carp.[2]

In 1979 he moved to the Zentralinstitut für Molekularbiologie der

HHMI
investigator since 1997.

He studies several aspects of cellular secretion, including the mechanisms by which newly synthesized proteins are translocated from the

reticulons
and related proteins regulate the morphology of the endoplasmic reticulum.

Selected research articles

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b "Tom Abraham Rapoport". Berlin-Brandenbergische Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German). Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  2. ^
    PMID 16186492
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  3. ^ Rapoport, Tom. "Reinhart Heinrich — An Unassuming Intellectual Giant". Journal of Theoretical Biology. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
  4. ^ "Harvard Biochemist Tom Rapoport Awarded Max Delbrück Medal in Berlin". Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch. 1 December 2005. Archived from the original on 3 January 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  5. ^ "Leopoldina ehrt den Zellbiologen Tom Rapoport mit der Schleiden-Medaille (13.09.2011)". Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina (in German). 6 October 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.

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