Carl Pabo

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Carl O. Pabo is a biophysicist. He is the founder and president of Humanity 2050, a nonprofit institute. [1] [2]

Education[]

[3]

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

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).[4] He's been a Visiting Professor at Caltech, Stanford, Berkeley and Harvard.[5] At Caltech, he taught a course called “The World in 2050.” [6]

He was Chief Scientific Officer at Sangamo BioSciences from 2001–2003.[7]

In 2018, he founded Humanity 2050 to “to advocate a more comprehensive, coherent way of thinking about the human future.” [8] He also serves as a scientific advisor for NanoDimension. [9]

Awards, Honors[]

Pabo became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2005.[10] He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences[11] and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[12]

He has also won the Protein Society Young Investigator Award and the Pfizer Award in enzymology.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ Project Syndicate Bio
  2. ^ Humanity 2050
  3. ^ Protean Futures LLC
  4. ^ Carl O. Pabo, PhD | HHMI.org
  5. ^ Protean Futures
  6. ^ NAS Member Bio
  7. ^ Protean Futures
  8. ^ Humanity 2050 Blog
  9. ^ Carl O. Pabo resume
  10. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | All Fellows".
  11. ^ NAS profile
  12. ^ Protean Futures
  13. ^ Four professors elected to NAS membership


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