Caleb Finch

Caleb Ellicott " Tuck " Finch ( born July 4, 1939) is an American cell biologist, endocrinologist and gerontologist, known for the study of human aging.

Finch graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and his doctorate in 1969 at the Rockefeller University in Cell Biology ( Cellular activities falling on aging in mammals ). 1970 to 1972 he was assistant professor of anatomy at the Medical College of Cornell University. He was Assistant Professor and in 1978 Professor of Biology at the University of Southern California ( USC) in 1972. He is at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology USC ( ARCO - William F. Kieschnick Professor in the Neurobiology of Aging ). He was University Distinguished Professor at USC, their highest award to Professors 1989.

In 1984 he founded at USC, funded by the National Institutes of Health ( and here especially the NIA, National Institute of Aging ) Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer Research Center (Alzheimer's Disease Research Center). He heads the committee of the National Research Council for Bio - demography of aging.

He examined the basic biological processes involved in aging, hormonal control of aging and the role of inflammatory processes in aging and in neurodegenerative diseases and the role of diet and air pollution particularly from car traffic ( impact on brain development and development). He also conducts research on the evolution of life span and age-related diseases, especially Alzheimer's disease.

In 1996 he received the first prize of the Ipsen Foundation Longevity. He received the 1985 Robert W. Klee Meier Award from the Gerontological Society of America and Brookdale Award, in 1988 the Allied Signal Award and the 1995 Sandoz Premier Prize of the International Geriatric Association. In 1999 he was awarded the Irving Wright Award from the American Federation of Aging Research ( AFAR ), and the 1999 Research Award of AGE (Advanced Gerontological Education). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Writings

  • Published by John A. Behnke, Gairdner B. Moment: The Biology of Aging, Plenum Press 1978
  • With Edward L. Schneider et al (Editor): Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Van Nostrand, 2nd edition 1985
  • Peter Davies (Editor): Molecular neuropathology of aging, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1987
  • With J.-M. Robine, Y. Christen (Eds. ): Brain and longevity, Springer Verlag 2003
  • The biology of human longevity, Academic Press 2007
  • Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome, University of Chicago Press 1990
  • With R. Ricklefs: Aging: A Natural History, Scientific American Library, Freeman, San Francisco 1995
  • Thomas BL Kirkwood: Chance, Development, and Aging, Oxford University Press 2000
  • Evolution of the human lifespan and diseases of aging: roles of infection, inflammation and nutrition, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 107, Supplement 1, 2010, pp. 1718-1724, Online
  • The evolution of the human life span, past present and future, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 156, 2012, pp. 9-44
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