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 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Known for | DOCK[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry Biology |
| Institutions | University of California, San Francisco |
| Thesis | Spectroscopic studies of photosynthesis (1965) |
| Doctoral students | Patricia Babbitt[1] |
| Website | mdi |
Education
editTack 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
editHe 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
edit- ^ 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)
- ^ "UCSF DOCK". dock.compbio.ucsf.edu.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Kuntz Group". dock.compbio.ucsf.edu.
- ^ Kuntz, Irwin (1965). Spectroscopic studies of photosynthesis (PhD thesis). University of California, San Francisco. OCLC 890262828. ProQuest 302313300. (subscription required)
- ^ "Irwin D. Kuntz". mdi.ucsf.edu.
- ^ "Welcome From the Director". mdi.ucsf.edu.
- ^ "UCSF Medal". Office of the Chancellor. Retrieved 1 July 2020.