Stephen M. Rappaport

Stephen M. Rappaport is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences. He is a pioneer in Exposure Biology and a leading advocate of the Exposome concept as a paradigm for environmental health research. His work focuses on protein adducts as biomarkers of toxic chemical exposures, particularly through the development of adductomics approaches to identify biomarkers linked to chronic diseases like cancer.

Education includes a PhD in Air & Industrial Hygiene (UNC Chapel Hill, 1974), MSPH (UNC Chapel Hill, 1973), and BS in Chemistry (University of Illinois, 1969). His research integrates omics technologies with epidemiology to uncover environmental causes of diseases, emphasizing long-term exposure assessment and biomarker development for benzene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and other toxicants.

Major contributions include defining the 'protein adductome' and demonstrating its utility in population health studies. Recent work examines sex differences in NHL incidence, links between air pollution and lung cancer in never-smokers, and childhood leukemia biomarkers in dried blood spots. Over 300 publications reflect his global collaborations in exposome research and occupational health.