Robert Thomas Sauer (born 13 July 1948) is an American biochemist who is the Salvador E. Luria Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts as an undergraduate and earned his bachelor's degree in biophysics in 1972.
[1][2] Sauer joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978, a year before he completed his PhD.
He has held a number of service roles at MIT and spent five years, from 1999 to 2004, as the head of the biology department.
[3][5] His group has made significant contributions to the study of protein degradation and its regulation in living cells.