George Perry is a neuroscientist and Dean of the College of Sciences and Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a leading researcher in the field of Alzheimer's disease. Born April 12, 1953 in Lompoc, California, Perry received his bachelor's of arts degree in Zoology from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1974 and his PhD in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography of University of California at San Diego in 1979. He then received a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Cell Biology in the laboratories of Dr. Bill Brinkley, Joseph Bryan and Anthony R. Means at Baylor College of Medicine, where his research focused on cytoskeletal abnormalities. In 1995, Perry joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University, where he eventually became Professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine and where he currently holds an adjunct appointment. Since 2005, he has been the Dean of the College of Sciences and Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Perry's research focuses on the mechanism of formation and physiological consequences of the cytopathology of Alzheimer disease. His research explores how oxidative damage plays a role in the initial cytopathological abnormality in Alzheimer disease and the sequence of events leading to neuronal oxidative damage and the source of the increased oxygen radicals. His research also looks at the metabolic basis for mitochondrial damage restricted to vulnerable neurons, and the consequences of RNA oxidation on protein synthesis rate and fidelity.

With over 900 publications, Perry is listed as one of the top 100 most-cited scientists in Alzheimer's disease research and one of the top 25 scientists in free radical research. Perry is also the 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 and past-president of the American Association of Neuropathologists.