Caleb Finch

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

Finch graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and received his PhD in cell biology from Rockefeller University in 1969 (Cellular activities during aging in mammals). 1970 to 1972 he was Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Cornell University Medical College . In 1972 he became assistant professor and in 1978 professor of biology at the University of Southern California (USC). He is at USC's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology ( ARCO-William F. Kieschnick Professor in the Neurobiology of Aging ). In 1989 he became a University Distinguished Professor at USC, its highest honor for professors.

In 1984 he founded at USC from the National Institutes of Health -funded (and here especially the NIA, National Institute of Aging) Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's Research Center (Alzheimer's Disease Research Center). He chairs the National Research Council's Committee on Bio-Demographics of Aging.

He examined the basic biological processes in aging, the hormonal control of aging and the role of inflammatory processes in aging and in neurodegenerative diseases as well as the role of nutrition and air pollution, especially from car traffic (influence on brain development and development). He also researches the evolution of life spans and diseases of the elderly, especially Alzheimer's disease.

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

Fonts

  • Editor with John A. Behnke, Gairdner B. Moment: The Biology of Aging, Plenum Press 1978
  • with Edward L. Schneider u. a. (Editor): Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Van Nostrand, 2nd edition 1985
  • with Peter Davies (editor): Molecular neuropathology of aging, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 1987
  • with Kenneth W. Wachter (editor): Between Zeus and the salmon: the biodemography of longevity, National Academy Press 1997
  • with J.-M. Robine, Y. Christen (editor): 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
  • with 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 National Academy of Sciences, Volume 107, Supplement 1, 2010, pp. 1718-1724, online
  • The evolution of the human lifespan, past present and future, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 156, 2012, pp. 9-44

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Career data and life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004