Doron Lancet


Doron Lancet is an Israeli human geneticist. He is the Ralph D. and Lois R. Silver Professor of Human Genomics and head of the Crown Human Genome Center at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is known for researching the genetic basis of olfaction, and for developing the human genetics database GeneCards.

Honors and awards

Lancet received the Israel Biochemical Society's Hestrin Prize, the Association for Chemoreception Sciences' Takasago Award, and the R.H. Wright Award in Olfactory Research. He has been a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization since 1996.