Prof Doron Lancet

Ralph & Lois Silver Chair of Human Genomics
Department of Molecular Genetics
Head, Crown Human Genome Center
Weizmann Institute of Science


Email: doron.lancet@weizmann.ac.il
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Prof. Doron Lancet is a genome and bioinformatics researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He headed there the Department of Membrane Research and Biophysics, and is currently Professor at the department of Molecular Genetics, where he studies the genetics and genome organization of the olfactory receptor gene superfamily. Since 1992 Lancet has been active in the Israeli and international genome scenes, and is currently Director of Israel's National Knowledge Center for Genomics, and of the Crown Human Genome Center at the Weizmann Institute. In this realm, his research has included the discovery of genes for monogenic diseases, as well as high throughput SNP scoring for elucidating polygenic diseases and pharmacogenetics. In the realms of bioinformatics, Lancet and group have developed GeneCards, a widely-used web-based human gene compendium. Lancet is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) since 1996 and of HUGO since 1994. He has won international prizes in the field of olfaction, and is author of more than 180 papers and reviews.