Dennis A. Dougherty

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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 uses various approaches to understand of the human brain, including in vivo nonsense suppression, which incorporates unnatural amino acids into ion channels for structure-function studies.