Irwin Douglas "Tack" Kuntz is an important figure in the field of computer-aided drug design and molecular modeling. He is a pioneer in the development and conception of the area of study known as molecular docking. One of the first docking programs DOCK was developed in his group in 1982.[3][4]

Tack Kuntz
Born
Irwin Douglas Kuntz
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materPrinceton University (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known forDOCK[2]
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Biology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Francisco
ThesisSpectroscopic studies of photosynthesis (1965)
Doctoral studentsPatricia Babbitt[1]
Websitemdi.ucsf.edu/KuntzBio.html

Education

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Tack received his Bachelor of Arts degree in physical chemistry from Princeton University in 1961[citation needed] and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 for spectroscopic studies of photosynthesis.[5]

Career and research

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He moved to the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry the University of California, San Francisco in the early 1970s.[6] He founded the Molecular Design Institute at UCSF in 1993.[7] He was awarded the UCSF medal in 2018.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Babbit, Patricia Clement (1988). Sequence determination, expression, and site-directed mutagenesis of creatine kinase (PhD thesis). University of California, San Francisco. OCLC 19528718. ProQuest 303714424. (subscription required)
  2. ^ "UCSF DOCK". dock.compbio.ucsf.edu.
  3. ^ Kuntz, ID; Blaney, JM; Oatley, SJ; Langridge, R; Ferrin, TE (1982). "A geometric approach to macromolecule-ligand interactions". Journal of Molecular Biology. 161 (2): 269–88. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(82)90153-X. PMID 7154081.
  4. ^ "The Kuntz Group". dock.compbio.ucsf.edu.
  5. ^ Kuntz, Irwin (1965). Spectroscopic studies of photosynthesis (PhD thesis). University of California, San Francisco. OCLC 890262828. ProQuest 302313300. (subscription required)
  6. ^ "Irwin D. Kuntz". mdi.ucsf.edu.
  7. ^ "Welcome From the Director". mdi.ucsf.edu.
  8. ^ "UCSF Medal". Office of the Chancellor. Retrieved 1 July 2020.