Dr. Dmitry D. Zhdanov is the head of a laboratory at the Institute of Biomedical Chemistry (IBMC), Moscow, Russia with a Ph.D. and Dr. Sci. in Biochemistry from the Ecological Faculty of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), 2009. He won the Russian President's scholarship to study abroad in 2011 and held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences during 2012–2013. His research interests include mechanisms of alternative splicing, cell death, telomerase, and antitumor enzymes.