George Perry:
CLASS OF 1971
Lompoc High SchoolClass of 1971
Lompoc, CA
George's Story
George Perry is professor of biology and former dean of the College of Sciences at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Perry is recognized in the field of Alzheimer disease research particularly for his work on oxidative metabolism.
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. 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 disease researchers with over 900 publications, one of the top 100 most-cited scientists in neuroscience and behavior. Perry has been cited over 109,000 times (H=163) and is recognized as an ISI highly cited researcher and the top expert in Alzheimer disease by Expertscape. 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, Microscopy Society of America, Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, CChem), Royal Society of Medicine, Royal Society of Biology (FRSB, CBiol, CSciTeach and CSci), Royal Microscopical So...Expand for more
ciety (FRMS), Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) and the Linnean Society of London (FLS),past-president of the Southwestern Region of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, past-chair of the Board of the National Organization of Portuguese Americans and past-president of the American Association of Neuropathologists, Foreign Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences Lisbon, Foreign Correspondent Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and member of the Iberoamerican Molecular Biology Organization. He won the Distinguished Professional Mentor Award from the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Sciences, Senior Investigator Award of the International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology, Panama National Plaque of Honor for Excellence in Neuroscience, Martin Goland Award-Sigma Xi Alamo Chapter, UDAAN-Lifetime Achievement Award, Rous-Whipple Award-American Society for Investigative Pathology, Scientist of the Year 2021-BioPub, Distinguished Texas Scientist-Texas Academy of Sciences, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and a Fulbright Senior Scholar.
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 metabolic abnormalities.
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