Born in Tel Aviv, Michael Eisenbach graduated from Tel Aviv University with a BSc in chemistry, and an MSc and a PhD in biochemistry. He did his postdoctoral research at the Weizmann Institute of Science and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He returned to the Weizmann Institute in 1980, where he is a Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry. He has served as the Departmental Chair, Director of the Josef Cohn Minerva Center for Biomembrane Research, Chairman of the Israel National Committee for Microbiology of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Chairman of Weizmann Institute’s Scientific Council, President of the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and President of the Pasteur-Weizmann Scientific Council. He is the incumbent of the Jack and Simon Djanogly Professorial Chair in Biochemistry. In 2010, he was awarded the Sarov Prize in Microbiology from the Israel Society for Microbiology. Eisenbach’s research focuses on cell guidance in bacteria and sperm cells. He opened the field of mammalian sperm guidance by demonstrating, in contrast to the prevailing dogma, that human sperm cells do not reach the female egg by chance but rather they are guided to the egg by a combination of several guidance mechanisms.