Perry Ridge
Associate Professor of Biology
Perry Ridge is an associate professor of Biology at Brigham Young University. As an undergraduate, Dr. Ridge received formal training in both computer science and bioinformatics. Before attending graduate school, he worked on Department of Defense contracts at Innovative Emergency Management to predict areas to be affected following nuclear/biological accidents based on current weather conditions.
After earning a M.S. in genomics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he worked at ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City to 1) develop methods and protocols to use next-generation sequencing in clinical disease diagnosis, and 2) studied the genetics of rare human diseases. Later he earned a Ph.D. in genetics from Brigham Young University.
Dr. Ridge has over 10 years of experience studying the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease. He has participated in some of the most significant genetic discoveries in Alzheimer’s disease in the last 10 years and was the first to study whole mitochondrial genomes to understand their relationship to Alzheimer’s disease. In addition to his genetics work, Dr. Ridge’s lab has developed numerous computational methods to better understand the relationship between genotype and phenotype in human disease.
