Leonid Kruglyak is a scientist focusing on evolutionary genetics. He is the Chair of the Department of Human Genetics, a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Human Genetics and Biological Chemistry and was appointed in 2020 The Diller-von Furstenberg Endowed Chair in Human Genetics at the
David Geffen School of Medicine
The University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine—known as the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (DGSOM)—is an accredited medical school located in Los Angeles, California, United States. The school was renamed in 2001 in ...
at the
University of California Los Angeles
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.
Kruglyak received a bachelor's degree from
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
and a masters and doctorate from the
University of California at Berkeley
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in physics. After working as faculty at the
Whitehead Institute
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research institute located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States that is dedicated to improving human health through basic biomedical research. It was founded as a fiscally indepen ...
and
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, formerly known as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and also known as Fred Hutch or The Hutch, is a cancer research institute established in 1975 in Seattle, Washington.
History
The center grew out o ...
, he returned to Princeton as a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in 2005.
He has been an
HHMI investigator since 2008.
He received an
NIH MERIT award
The NIH MERIT award (Method To Extend Research in Time) Award (R37) was created by the National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary age ...
in 2002.
[https://www.princeton.edu/eeb/people/data/k/kruglyak/CV.pdf ] He was elected a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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in 2007. He received the
Curt Stern Award The Curt Stern Award, also known as the Stern Award, honors the memory of Curt Stern (1902–1981) as an outstanding and pioneering human geneticist. Established in 2001, this award is presented annually by the American Society of Human Genetics (AS ...
in 2015 and the
Edward Novitski Prize
The Edward Novitski Prize is awarded by the Genetics Society of America (GSA) to recognize an extraordinary level of creativity and intellectual ingenuity in solving significant problems in genetics research.
Named in honor of Drosophila geneticis ...
in 2016.
He married Hilary Coller in 1999, also a medical researcher at UCLA.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA faculty
Howard Hughes Medical Investigators
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Princeton University alumni
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center people
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