Richard A. Houghten

Richard A. Houghten is a heterocyclic organic chemist and founder of the journal ''Peptide Research'', which was later merged with the ''International Journal of Peptide and Protein Research,'' to become the ''Journal of Peptide Research''. His work mainly concerns peptide activity and pharmacology. He is the founder and president of the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies (TPIMS), a biomedical research institute. Houghten pioneered the "tea-bag" approach of producing peptides for pharmacological work.

He is author of over five hundred scientific papers, 38 of which have been cited at least one hundred times. His h-index is over 60. Provided by Wikipedia