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NAME: Caleb E. Finch
TITLE: ARCO/ Keischnick Professor of Gerontology and Biological Science and University Professor, Director, Gerontology Research Institute
RESEARCH TOPICS:
1. Basic mechanisms in the human biology of aging, with focus on inflammation and nutritional influences.
2. Air pollution influences on aging
3. Evolution of the human lifespan and diseases of aging, especially Alzheimer disease.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW: Dr. Finch's major research interest is the study of basic mechanisms in human aging with a focus on inflammation.
He 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 the founder of the NIA-funded Alzheimer Disease Research Center in 1984 and currently serves as co-Director. Dr. Finch
became a University Distinguished Professor in 1989, an honor held by sixteen other professors at USC who contribute to multiple fields. He is a
member of five editorial boards and has written four books and 475 articles. A new research area is the effect of air pollution on brain
development and aging, which he is developing through a USC-wide network (AirPollBrain website http://envneurosci.usc.edu/APB)
EDUCATION: BS, Yale, 1961; Ph.D., Rockefeller University, 1969
Recent articles
Mazumder B, Almond D, Park K, Crimmins EM, Finch CE (2010) Lingering prenatal effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on cardiovascular disease. J Devel Origins Health Dis 1:26-34.
Finch CE (2010) Evolution of the human lifespan and diseases of aging: roles of infection, nutrition, and nutrition. PNAS, 107 (suppl. 1) 1718-1724.
Finch CE (2010) Evolving views of ageing and longevity from Homer to Hippocrates: emergence of natural factors, persistence of the supernatural. Greece & Rome 57: 355-377.
Vasunilashorn S, Crimmins EM, Kim J-K, Winking J, Gurven M, Kaplan H, Finch CE (2010) Blood lipids, infection and inflammatory markers in the Tsimane of Bolivia, a highly infected population. J Human Biol 22: 731-740.
Kirkwood TB, Cordell HJ, Finch CE (2011) Speed-bumps ahead for the genetics of later-life diseases. Trends in Genetics. 27:387-388.
Morgan TE, Davis DD, Iwata N, Tanner JM, Snyder D, Ning Z, Kam W, Hsu YT, Winkler JW, Chen JC, Petasis NA, Baudry M, Sioutas C, Finch CE. Glutamatergic neurons in rodent models respond to nanoscale particulate urban air pollutants in vivo and in vitro. Env Health Perspect 119:1003-1009.
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