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Professor Thomas F. Budinger

Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences

Mailing Address: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, LBNL Bldg. 55, Berkeley, CA 94720

Email Address: tfbudinger@lbl.gov, budinger@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Dr. Budinger's interests in the area of aging in the Department of Bioengineering involves both studies of Alzheimer's disease patients using imaging and peripheral vascular flow measurements as well as studies of stem cell or progenitor cell capabilities for tissue renewal during the aging process. The imaging studies include magnetic resonance and anatomical studies, PET studies of glucose metabolism, PET studies of estrogen receptors, and potentially membrane studies using new magnetic resonance methods. Systemic blood flow studies in Alzheimer's disease are done by physiological measurements, which have the goal of demonstrating whether there is a fundamental defect in the vascular adaptation to normal stresses.

More recent studies involve the stem cell studies and range from fundamental biological investigations of cell behavior in various environments to investigations of the differences in the concentration of endothelial progenitor cells in normal subjects vs. Alzheimer's patients.

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