Irwin "Tack" Kuntz
Irwin D. Kuntz | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Princeton University University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Computational Biology, Docking |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry, Biology |
| Institutions | University of California, San Francisco |
Irwin D. 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.[1]
He received his A.B. Degree in Physical Chemistry from Princeton University in 1961 and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965. He moved to the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry the University of California, San Francisco in the early 1970s.[2] He founded the Molecular Design Institute at UCSF in 1993.[3]
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References
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://mdi.ucsf.edu/KuntzBio.html
- ^ http://mdi.ucsf.edu/welcome.html