Tom Kurtzman, Ph.D.

Dr. Kurtzman is a pioneer in the exploration and determination of the structure of water in biological systems, having developed one of the earliest tools for modeling water in a binding pocket. He is a professor at Lehman College, City University of New York, where his research focuses on the development of computational methods that aid in the discovery and rational design of new drugs. Dr. Kurtzman’s honors and awards include the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the Computational Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Kurtzman earned a B.A. in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University, and pursued postdoctoral research at Columbia University.