Leonid Kruglyak is a #scientist specializing in evolutionary genetics and the genetic basis of complex traits. He is the Chair of the Department of Human Genetics and a Distinguished Professor in both Human Genetics and Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at @UCLA. In 2020, he was appointed to the Diller-von Furstenberg Endowed Chair in Human Genetics. Kruglyak is recognized for his work on expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), which are genetic variants that influence gene expression. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and completed his master’s and doctoral studies in physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has held faculty positions at the Whitehead Institute, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Princeton University, where he served as a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. He became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator in 2008 and has received several honors, including the NIH MERIT Award (2002), election as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007), the Curt Stern Award (2015), and the Edward Novitski Prize (2016). He married Hilary Coller, a fellow medical researcher at UCLA, in 1999. Leonid was @Chantle Edillor's postdoctoral advisor.

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