specializing in applications to cancer research. A mathematics graduate of Manhattan College, New York, Gehan obtained his PhD in experimental statistics and public health at North Carolina State U in 1957 (partly supervised by Sir David Cox). In 1994 he was appointed Director of Biostatistics at the Georgetown U Medical Center in Washington. In 1987 he was President of the ISCB.

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