I am Eugene Shubnikov, from Russia, Siberia. Currently I am in the Crimea, Ukraine. I am a research scientist at the Institute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia. My specialty is diabetes epidemiology and I have met Ron about 17 years ago during work at Multinational Type I Incidence among children project DIAMOND. Later I met Nan and other collaborators of DIAMOND project from many countries.