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.
[3][4] 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] 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.