**About the Editor**

**Haim Werner** was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1952. He moved to Israel in 1970, where he began his academic studies. He obtained his B.Sc. (1974) and M.Sc. (1977) degrees in Biology and Genetics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his Ph.D. (1987) degree in Hormone Research from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot. Between 1987 and 1996 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Diabetes Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Professor Werner returned to Israel in 1996 and is currently the incumbent of the Lady Davis Chair in Biochemistry and Head of the Shalom and Varda Yoran Institute for Human Genome Research, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Professor Werner's research focus on the molecular biology of the insulin-like growth factor system. He is the author of over 200 papers.
