Olivera J. Finn PhD

Dr. Olivera J. Finn is a University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Professor of Immunology and Surgery. After receiving her PhD in Medical Microbiology at Stanford University in 1980 and completing her postdoctoral training in Immuno-oncology there in 1982, Dr. Finn started her research at Duke University and in 1991 moved to the University of Pittsburgh to lead their cancer center’s Immunology Program. She gained prominence through her basic and applied research on tumor antigens and cancer vaccines.

Dr. Finn has received numerous awards including the AAI Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), the NCI Outstanding Investigator Award (2016), the AACR CIR Lloyd Old Cancer Immunology Prize (2017), and the SITC Richard Smalley Award (2019). In 2019 she was inducted into the inaugural class of AAI Distinguished Fellows and in 2022 became a Fellow of the SITC Immuno-Oncology Academy.