Carl Pabo


Carl O. Pabo is considered a "world leader in issues involving the structure and design of DNA-binding protein." He is now founder and president of Humanity 2050, a nonprofit institute.

Education

Dr. Pabo has been a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He's been a Visiting Professor at Caltech, Stanford, Berkeley and Harvard. At Caltech, he taught a course called “The World in 2050.”
He was Chief Scientific Officer at Sangamo BioSciences from 2001–2003.
In 2018, he founded Humanity 2050 to “to advocate a more comprehensive, coherent way of thinking about the human future.”
He also serves as a scientific advisor for NanoDimension.

Awards, Honors

Pabo became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2005. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has also won the Protein Society Young Investigator Award and the Pfizer Award in enzymology.