Dr. Richard L. Doty, PhD, FAAN

The director of the Taste & Smell Evaluation Center is Richard L. Doty. He is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and was the director of its Smell and Taste Center for nearly 50 years. He is an author or coauthor of over 500 professional publications (including 12 books and contributions to such publications as Science, Nature, and the Encyclopedia Britannica), and is editor of the Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation (Marcel Dekker, 1995, 2003, 2015), a 2000+ page tome considered to be the Bible of the chemical senses field. His most recent books are Smell and Taste Disorders, co-authored by Christopher Hawkes (Cambridge University Press) and The Great Pheromone Myth (Johns Hopkins University Press). A consultant to numerous major corporations and governmental committees, he is best known as the inventor of the most widely used smell and taste tests in the world. Among his awards are the James A. Shannon Award from the National Institutes of Health (1996), the 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century Award from the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England (1999), the Olfactory Research Fund’s Scientific Sense of Smell Award (2000), the William Osler Patient-Oriented Research Award from the University of Pennsylvania (2003), the Society of Cosmetic Chemist’s Service Award (2004), the Association for Chemoreception Science’s Max Mozell Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Chemical Senses (2005), and the 2024 ScholarGPS’s “Highly Ranked Scholar” award (Olfaction #1, Otolaryngology #5, Medicine #97).