PERSON: Gene Block

University of California, Los Angeles

Chancellor

Gene Block was appointed UCLA chancellor on August 1, 2007. As chief executive officer, he oversees the university’s three-part mission of education, research and service. He has defined academic excellence, civic engagement, diversity and financial security as top priorities for his administration.

Chancellor Block holds faculty appointments in psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and in integrative biology and physiology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science. An expert in neuroscience, his research has focused on the neurobiology of circadian rhythms; specifically, the neural mechanisms by which organisms adjust sleep and wakefulness to the day and night cycle.

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