Dale Bredesen
Neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher
Dale Bredesen is a neurologist who studies neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. He also led the Buck Institute for Research on Aging from its beginning.
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About Dale Bredesen
Dale Bredesen studied at Caltech and earned his medical degree at Duke University Medical Center. He later served as neurology chief resident at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), then did postdoctoral work with Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner. He has held faculty posts at UCSF, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of California, San Diego. He directed the Program on Aging at the Burnham Institute, and in 1998 he moved to the Buck Institute for Research on Aging as founding president and CEO. His books include The End of Alzheimer's Program and The First Survivors of Alzheimer's.