Carl O. Pabo is considered a "world leader in issues involving the structure and design of DNA-binding protein."
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 Caltech, Stanford, Berkeley and Harvard.
He was Chief Scientific Officer at Sangamo BioSciences from 2001-2003.
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.