Caleb Finch

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Caleb Finch is Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California, with adjunct appointments in the Dept of Psychology, Dept of Physiology and Dept of Neurology. He is also one of USC's 12 University Professors who contribute to multiple fields. Dr. Finch's major research interest is the evolution of genomic controls on aging. Finch received his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1961 (Biophysics) and Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1969 (Biology). Dr. Finch has received most of the major awards in biomedical gerontology, including the Robert W. Kleemeier Award of the Gerontological Society of America in 1985, the Sandoz Premier Prize by the International Geriatric Association in 1995, and the Irving Wright Award of AFAR and the Research Award of AGE in 1999. He was  founding PI and Director of  the NIA-funded Alzheimer Disease Research Center in 1984, and continues as coPI. Finch supervises three pre-doctoral fellows and two postdoctoral fellows. He has written over 450 articles. He is co-founder of Acumen Pharmaceuticals, which has a major contract with Merck. In 1990 he published a major intellectual synthesis of aging: Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome. In 1995, Finch and Robert Ricklefs published Aging: A Natural History (Scientific American Library Series), translated into five different languages. Chance, Development, and Aging, co-authored with Thomas Kirkwood was published by Oxford in 2000. His latest book, The Biology of Human Longevity: Inflammation and Nutrition in the Evolution of Lifespans”,  July 2007 (Academic Press).

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