Dale E. Bredesen
Physician and neurodegeneration specialist
Dale E. Bredesen is a physician who specializes in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. He was the founding president and CEO of the Buck Institute.
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About Dale E. Bredesen
Dale E. Bredesen graduated from Caltech and earned his M.D. at Duke University Medical Center. He served as a neurology chief resident at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), then joined the laboratory of Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner as a postdoctoral fellow. He later held faculty positions at UCSF, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of California, San Diego. Bredesen directed the Program on Aging at the Burnham Institute, and in 1998 he joined the Buck Institute as its founding president and CEO. He has also written The End of Alzheimer's and The First Survivors of Alzheimer's. His book in our catalog is The Ageless Brain.