EUGENE DEMIDENKO, PhD, is presently Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Dartmouth (NH) Medical School. He received his PhD in Mathematics and Statistics from the Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His research interests cover a broad range of theoretical and computational statistics as applicable to bioengineering and cancer-related areas. He has served as an invited lecturer to several institutes/academies around the world.