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Lifetime Achievement Award, AAI, 2016
Finn Lab, University of Pittsburgh.
- Distinguished Professor, Department of Immunology
- Distinguished Professor, Department of Surgery
While Dr. Finn no longer accepts students into her lab, she is still very active in the PMI teaching in various courses and serving on both exam and thesis committees.
Education & Training
- Postdoc, Stanford University,
- PhD, Stanford University,
Research Interests
The long-standing interests of our laboratory center on identifying specific mechanisms of human anti-tumor immunity and cancer immunosurveillance.
We study T cell and antibody repertoire in cancer patients and in healthy individuals at risk for cancer and factors that influence that repertoire.
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We were the first to identify a human tumor antigen recognized by human T cells and antibodies, the epithelial mucin MUC1. We showed that tumors express an abnormal form of MUC1 that is recognized by the immune system as a foreign rather than a self-antigen.
Studies in mice and primates showed that MUC1 wa