Dr. George Perry
ProfessorUniversity of Texas at San Antonio, America
Highest Degree
PostDoc Fellow in Cell Biology from Baylor College of Medicine, USA
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Highest Degree
PostDoc Fellow in Cell Biology from Baylor College of Medicine, USA
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Dr. George Perry is Professor of Biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio. He has completed his PhD in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dr. Perry is recognized in the field of Alzheimer disease research particularly for his work on Oxidative Stress. He is distinguished as one of the top Alzheimer Disease Researchers with over 1000 research articles published in journals, and one of the top 100 most-cited scientists in neuroscience and behavior and one of the top 25 scientists in free radical research. Dr. Perry has been cited over 100,000 times (H=157), recognized as an ISI highly cited researcher and Top Expert in Alzheimer Disease determined by Expertscape. Dr. Perry is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Alzheimer Disease. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Microscopy Society of America, International Engineering and Technology Institute, Texas Academy of Sciences, Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacy (FABAP), Royal Society of Medicine, Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, CChem), Linnean Society of London (FLS), Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), Royal Society of Biology (FRSB, CBiol, CSci), Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA), Royal Microscopical Society (FRMS) and past-president and interim-executive director of the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and past-president of the American Association of Neuropathologists. He is Foreign Correspondent Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, Foreign Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences Lisbon, and corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Member of the Iberoamerican Molecular Biology Organization, and member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and Senior Fulbright Fellow. He was awarded the Panama National Plaque of Honor for Excellence in Neuroscience, Senior Investigator Award, International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology, Rous Whipple Award-American Society for Investigative Pathology, Distinguished Texas Scientist of the Texas Academy of Sciences, Denham Harmon Award of the American Aging Association and Martin Goland Award of the Alamo Chapter of Sigma Xi and many others. His 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.