Carl Pabo

Carl O. Pabo is considered a "world leader in issues involving the structure and design of DNA-binding protein."

Education

• B.S. (summa cum laude) from Yale, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1974
• Ph.D. from Harvard, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1980.

• Protean Futures LLC

Career

Dr. Pabo has been a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1982-1991) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991-2001) and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1986-2001). He's been a Visiting Professor at Cal Tech, Stanford, Berkeley and Harvard.

He was Chief Scientific Officer at Sangamo BioSciences from 2001-2003.

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.