Dr. Zuo-Feng Zhang, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, has been appointed the new associate dean for research effective September 1, 2013. Dr. Zhang has served as co-director of the UCLA Alper Center for Environment Genomics since 2002, director of the Molecular Epidemiology Training Program since 1999, and scientific director of the UCLA Central Tumor Registry since 1997.