UCLA Engineering | 2008 Technology Forum

GENE D. BLOCK | Chancellor

Dr. Gene Block became chancellor of UCLA in August 2007. A biologist, he also holds faculty appointments in psychiatry and bio-behavioral sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine and in physiological science in the College of Letters and Science and oversees a lab in neurobiology funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Block previously served as vice president and provost of the University of Virginia, where he held the Alumni Council Thomas Jefferson Professorship in Biology. While at Virginia, he headed a graduate training program aimed at increasing the number of scientists from underrepresented groups. From 1991 to 2002, he directed the National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Center for Biological Timing.

He holds a master’s and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Oregon, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford University, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship.