Tack Kuntz | |
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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 |
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]