George Perry

George Perry is former dean of the College of Sciences and professor of biology and chemistry at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Perry is recognized in the field of Alzheimer's disease research particularly for his work on oxidative stress.

Perry received his bachelor's of arts degree in zoology with high honors from University of California, Santa Barbara. After graduation, he headed to Scripps Institution of Oceanography and obtained his Ph.D. in marine biology under David Epel in 1979. He then received a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Cell Biology in the laboratories of Drs. Bill Brinkley and Joseph Bryan at Baylor College of Medicine where he laid the foundation for his observations of abnormalities in cell structures.

He is distinguished as one of the top Alzheimer's disease researchers with over 900 publications, one of the top 100 most-cited scientists in neuroscience and behavior and one of the top 25 scientists in free radical research.

Perry has been cited over 118,000 times and is recognized as an ISI Highly Cited researcher. Perry is editor for numerous journals and is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Sigma Xi, Texas Academy of Sciences, Microscopy Society of America, Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal College of Pathologists, Society of Biology, Linnaean Society, Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Royal Society of Medicine and past-president of the American Association of Neuropathologists and the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a Foreign Correspondent Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, the Portuguese Diaspora Council and won the Distinguished Professional Mentor Award from the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans, Distinguished Texas Scientist from The Texas Academy of Sciences, Rous-Whipple Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology and the Panama National Honor.

Perry's research is primarily focused on how Alzheimer disease develops and the physiological consequences of the disease at a cellular level. He is currently working to determine the sequence of events leading to damage caused by and the source of increased oxygen radicals.