Caleb Finch

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Caleb 'Tuck' Finch is a professor at the University of Southern California who studies aging in humans, with expertise in cell biology and Alzheimer's disease. He was the founding Director of USC's NIH funded Alzheimer Disease Research Center in 1984, and ic currently co-Director. In 1989, the university made him one of its twelve "University Distinguished Professors". He is a full professor in the Gerontology and Biological Sciences, and an adjunct professor in departments of Anthropology, Psychology, Physiology and Neurology. He was the Chair of the National Research Council Committee on Biodemography of Aging.He ic co-author of 450 scientific papers and 4 books, most recently The Biology of Human Longevity (Academic Press, 2007).