Doron Lancet BSc, PhD

Prof. Doron Lancet received his B.Sc. degree in chemistry and Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His Ph.D. degree was in chemical immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot. Since 1981 he has been on the faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he previously headed the Department of Membrane Research and Biophysics, and is currently the Ralph and Lois Silver Professor of Human genomics at the department of Molecular Genetics.

Lancet pioneered genome research in Israel, and currently is the head of Weizmann's Crown Human Genome Center, where he oversees DNA sequencing technology innovation. His research interests span genome variation, monogenic diseases, the genetic basis sense of smell, bioinformatics and the evolution of early life on earth.

Prof. Lancet's team has pioneered the studies of the molecular basis olfaction, and developed Gene Cards, a world-known digital compendium of human genes. He received the first Takasago Award of the American Association for Chemoreception Sciences (1986), the USA R.H. Wright Award in Olfactory Research (1998) and Israel's Landau Prize (2008). Prof. Lancet is member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and is council member of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO).