Professor Doron Lancet
Doron Lancet, Ph.D. is The Ralph D. and Lois R. Silver Professor of
Human Genomics, Weizmann Institute of Science.
He pioneered genome research in Israel, and currently is the head of the
Crown Human Genome Center at the Weizmann Institute and of Israel’s
National Laboratory for Genome Infrastructure.
He is also on the
Scientific Advisory Board of the Archon X PRIZE for
Genomics.
His research interests span human genome research, the genetic basis
sense of smell, bioinformatics (the merger of biology and computing),
and
the evolution of life on earth. His team has pioneered the
studies of the molecular basis olfaction, discovering how smell signals
are amplified and terminated. He also developed Gene Cards, a
world-known “encyclopedia” of human genes.
Doron received the
Hestrin Prize
of the Israel Biochemical Society (1986), the First Takasago Award of
the American Association for Chemoreception Sciences (1986), and the USA
R.H. Wright Award in Olfactory Research (1998). He has been a
member of the European Molecular Biology Organization since 1996.
Doron coauthored
Genetic elucidation of human hyperosmia to isovaleric
acid,
Coevolution of compositional protocells and their
environment,
Novel definition files for human GeneChips based on
GeneAnnot,
CatSper2, a human autosomal non-syndromic male infertility
gene,
Ancient genomic architecture for mammalian olfactory receptor
clusters,
Early Systems Biology and Prebiotic Networks,
GeneTide — Terra Incognita Discovery Endeavor: a new
transcriptome
focused member of the GeneCards/GeneNote suite of databases, and
USH3A transcripts encode clarin-1, a four-transmembrane-domain
protein
with a possible role in sensory synapses.
Read the
full list of his publications!
His patents include
Markers associated with the therapeutic efficacy of glatiramer
acetate,
Method for the use of information derived by the application of a
probability law suitable for chiral selection and methods and systems
employing same, and
Erythrocyte differentiation factor, gene encoding same, and methods of
use thereof.
Doron earned his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry and Physics at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1970 and his Ph.D. degree in Chemical
Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot in 1978.
He is on the Editorial Board of
Biology Direct.
Read
Lipids Proposed As Original Life Form.
Learn about his
origin of life research.