Irwin "Tack" Kuntz

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.ucsf.edu/KuntzBio.html

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]

Education

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

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

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.