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George Perry is Semmes Foundation Distinguished University Chair in Neurobiology 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.  Scripps Institution of Oceanography awarded his Ph.D. in marine biology under David Epel in 1979. He then received a postdoctoral fellowship in Cell Biology in the laboratories of Drs. Bill Brinkley and Joseph Bryan at Baylor College of Medicine.

In 1982, Perry joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University, where he currently holds an adjunct appointment. He is distinguished as one of the top Alzheimer’s disease researchers with over 1000 publications, one of the top 100 most-cited scientists in neuroscience and behavior, top 100 biologists and one of the top 25 scientists in free radical research.

Perry has been cited over 127,000 times (H=177) and is recognized as an ISI highly cited researcher. Perry is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, the most prolific and cited in the field. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and past-president of the American Association of Neuropathologists and the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.  He is a  Foreign Correspondent Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, Mexican Academy of Science and the Academy of Sciences Lisbon.

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.