Yoram Yagil is a nephrologist and head of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension at the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, Israel. He is also a Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Ben-Gurion University. Professor Yagil et Yagil were born in Israel, received their higher education at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, trained at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem and completed their post-graduate training at the Mount in the United States. They have been co-heading the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine at the Barzilai Medical Center campus for the past thirteen years and have been jointly involved in the dissection of the genetic basis of complex diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and renal disease.