Menachem Hanani is a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. He obtained his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from The Hebrew University in 1976. He was a postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, USA. He has been a Guest Professor at: Ohio State University, USA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA; University of Oxford, UK; Nanchang University College of Medicine, China; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, MD, USA, and Leipzig University, Germany. He was twice an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, UK. His research interests include neurons, glial cells, the autonomic nervous system, and mechanisms of chronic pain.