Biography
George Perry is dean of the College of Sciences and professor of biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Perry is recognized in the field of Alzheimers disease research particularly for his work on oxidative stress. Perry received his bachelor of arts degree in zoology with high honorsfrom University of California, Santa Barbara. After graduation, he headed to Scripps Institution of Oceanography and obtained his Ph.D. in marine biology in 1979. He then received a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Cell Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. In 1982, Perry joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University until he moved to UTSA in 2006. He is distinguished as one of the top Alzheimers 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 40,000 times (H=101) and is recognized as an ISI Highly Cited researcher. Perry is editor for numerous journals and is editor-in-chief for the Journal of Alzheimers Disease. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Microscopy Society of America,Royal Society of Medicine, Royal Society of Chemistry, Society of Biology and the Linnean Society and past-president of the American Association of Neuropathologists.He has been elected member ofthe Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, Mexican Academy of Sciences and Academy of Sciences Lisbon; Iberoamerican Molecular Biology Organization, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and won the Distinguished Professional Mentor Award from the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, Senior Investigator Award from the International College of Geriatric psychoneuropharmacology,Senior Fulbright Fellow and the National Honor Plaque of Panama for exceptional contributions to Neuroscience. Perry is on Board of the National Organization of Portuguese Americans and serves as Director of Education and Research.
Research Interest
Alzheimers disease
Biography
Professor Jamil has been a faculty member for 38 years. He is author of 20 books, has 171 research publications, and has given 189 presentations at national & international meetings. In March 1997 Professor Jamil immigrated to USA, and in 2000 he was appointed as Professor at Wayne State University / School of Medicine, and he retired as Emeritus Professor in September 2015. Prof. Jamil biography is listed in the 25th. & 26th. Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge / England. In September 2015 he joined Michigan State University, Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Jamil is working on Community Outreach Research in the department to continue connections with different community organizations and continue collaboration with them in future research proposals as he is working on project entitle “Welcome to the United State: A community-engaged program for livening an integrated, healthy, and productive life†and project entitle Changing the negative mental health trajectory of newly arrived refugees: Determining the effectiveness of a risk-driven integrated intervention. Dr. Jamil’s research interests include the impact of environmental exposure (in particular Asthma) on the health and wellbeing new Americans (immigrants and refugees) in particular Arab/Chaldean people. He is engaged in a study titled “The Interaction between Lead and Trauma on the Epigenome and Proteome in Refugeesâ€, and is also engaged in studies of the health effects from tobacco and water pipe (hookah), and means to counteract the spread of water pipe smoking among adolescents. Dr. Jamil is also interested in global research collaborations, especially with Swedish universities as he is building such collaboration with Lund University.
Research Interest
Community Medicine
Biography
Dr. Dominique KAISERLIAN has completed his PhD in Immunology at the Necker Hospital and Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris and postdoctoral studies in mucosal immunology and gastroenterology at University of Alabama in Birmingham, and at UCSD, CA. She was recruited as Research Director at INSERM, head of ‘Mucosal Immunity, Vaccination and Biotherapy’ laboratory in Lyon, France. She has published more than 125 papers and has been serving as an editorial board member of Frontiers in Immunology. Her pioneer research work concerns the role of the gut-liver axis in mucosal and systemic immune regulation and outcome for biotherapy of human diseases and vaccination strategies.
Research Interest
Mucosal immunology from fundamental principles to application for human health and prevention of allergy chronic inflammatory diseases and infection.