Caleb Finch Ph.D.
ARCO/ Keischnick Professor of Gerontology and Biological Science and University Professor, Director, Gerontology Research Institute. Cell biology, mechanisms controlling postnatal development and aging in man and other mammals, Alzheimer's disease. *Chair, National research Council Committee on Biodemography of Aging: Bringing Bioindicators to household surveys. *Chair, Symposium on Slow Aging (SOSA), Sept 22-23, USC

Dr. Finch is a Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences, and a founding member of the Departments of Molecular Biology and Neurobiology. He also holds adjunct appointments in the Dept of Psychology, Dept of Physiology and Dept of Neurology. He is also one of USC's 12 University Distinguished Professors. Dr. Finch's major research interest is the study of genomic controls of mammalian development and aging.

He received his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1961, where he majored in biophysics. He continued his work in cell biology and received his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1969. 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 has directed the NIA-funded Alzheimer Disease Research Center since 1984. Dr. Finch became a University Distinguished Professor in 1989, an honor held by twelve other professors at USC who contribute to multiple fields. Dr. Finch supervises three predoctoral fellows and four postdoctoral fellows and two research faculty. He is a member of ten editorial boards. He has written over 350 articles. In 1990 he published a major intellectual synthesis of aging: Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome.

In 1995, Dr. Finch and Robert Ricklefs published Aging: A Natural History ( Scientific American Library Series) for the general public. It has been translated into five different languages. In 2000, Chance, Development, and Aging was co-authored with Thomas Kirkwood, Oxford Press . His most recent book, single authored, is The Biology of Human Longevity. Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Lifespans. Academic Press 2007. His latest book, co-authored with Thomas Kirkwood was published by Oxford in 2000: Chance, Development, and Aging.

Most recent papers are:

Finch CE. Update on slow aging and negligible senescence--a mini-review.Gerontology. 2009;55(3):307-13. -PubMed

Finch CE.The neurobiology of middle-age has arrived. Neurobiol Aging. 2009; 30(4):515-20; discussion 530-33. -PubMed

Wong AM, Rozovsky I, Arimoto JM, Du Y, Wei M, Morgan TE, Finch CE. Progesterone influence on neurite outgrowth involves microglia. Endocrinology. 2009; 150(1):324-32. -PubMed

Faghihi MA, Modarresi F, Khalil AM, Wood DE, Sahagan BG, Morgan TE, Finch CE, St Laurent G 3rd, Kenny PJ, Wahlestedt C.Expression of a noncoding RNA is elevated in Alzheimer's disease and drives rapid feed-forward regulation of beta-secretase.Nat Med. 2008;14(7):723-30. -PubMed

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