Dennis A. Dougherty | |
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| Born | December 4, 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Bucknell University B.S/M.S (1974) Princeton University Ph.D (1978) Yale University post-doctoral (1979) |
| Awards | Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2010) Arthur C. Cope Award (2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry Neuroscience |
| Institutions | Caltech |
| Academic advisors | Kurt Mislow |
| Doctoral students | Lisa McElwee-White |
Dennis A. Dougherty (born December 4, 1952, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is the George Grant Hoag Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. His research applies physical organic chemistry to systems of biological importance. Dougherty utilizes a variety of approaches to further our understanding of the human brain, including the in vivo nonsense suppression methodology for incorporating unnatural amino acids into a variety of ion channels for structure-function studies.