Caleb Finch, PhD, researches the 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. Finch became a University Distinguished Professor in 1989, an honor held by thirty other professors at USC who contribute to multiple fields. In 2018 Finch received an honorary doctorate from The French Academy. Dr. Finch has written six books and 600 articles.