Stacey Deleria Finley, PhD

Dr. Stacey Finley joined the Biomedical Engineering Department at USC in 2013. Dr. Finley received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Florida A & M University in 2004. She pursued graduate studies in Chemical Engineering and received her Ph.D. in 2009 from Northwestern University. While at Northwestern, Dr. Finley was a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a participant in the NIH Biotechnology Predoctoral Training Program. Following her graduate work, Dr. Finley was a postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was awarded postdoctoral fellowships from the NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) and the UNCF/Merck Science Initiative. She is a member of American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), and the Society of Mathematical Biology (SMB).

• Keystone Symposia Fellow, 2016
• Diverse: Issues in Higher Education: Emerging Scholar Award, 2015
• National Academy of Engineering: Frontiers in Engineering Education, 2014
• University of Southern California: WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professorship, 2013
• Journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Elmer Gaden Jr. Award, 2010
• National Institutes of Health: Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2010
• UNCF/Merck Science Initiative: Postdoctoral Science Research Fellowship, 2010
• National Science Foundation: Graduate Research Fellowship, 2006

• Exploring the dynamic tumor-immune ecosystem of breast cancer in heterogeneous tumor microenvironments
  NIH · U01CA293859 · Aug 4, 2025 – Jul 31, 2030 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Modeling based design of chimeric antigen receptors for Natural Killer cell-based immunotherapy
  NIH · U01CA275808 · Sep 9, 2022 – Aug 31, 2027 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Multiscale systems biology modeling to exploit tumor-stromal metabolic crosstalk in colorectal cancer
  NIH · U01CA232137 · Sep 13, 2018 – Aug 31, 2023 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Predictive model of pro- and anti-angiogenic factors involved in breast cancer
  NIH · F32CA154213 · Sep 15, 2010 – Feb 14, 2013 · Role: Principal Investigator

• Dr. Stacey Finley's research is all about computation. But she can't calculate the impact she'll have on students. (10/11/2013)

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