Noah Isakov is a Professor of Immunology in the Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer Sheva, Israel, where he holds the Joseph H Krupp Chair in Cancer Immunobiology. He obtained his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel (1981) and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN (1981-1983) and the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA (1983-1987). He performed sabbaticals at the NICHD, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD (1993-1995), the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City, OK (2003-2004), where he held the Esther Greenberg Honors Chair in Biomedical Research, and the Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand (2015).