Dale  Bredesen, MD

Dale Bredesen, MD


Dr. Bredesen is internationally recognized as an expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. He graduated from Caltech, then earned his MD from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. He served as Chief Resident in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) before joining Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner’s laboratory at UCSF as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. He held faculty positions at UCSF, UCLA and the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Bredesen founded the Buck Institute in 1998 and served as its founding President and CEO. Dr. Bredesen had numerous television appearances. Dr. Bredesen is developing successful protocols to reverse Alzheimer’s Disease.