Gentry Patrick

Gentry Patrick
Born	Gentry Namón Patrick South Los Angeles
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (SB) University of California, San Francisco (MS) Harvard University (PhD)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of California, San Diego California Institute of Technology
Thesis	Regulation of the p35/cdk5 kinase in neuronal development and neurodegenerative disease (1999)
Doctoral advisor	Li-Huei Tsai
Website	biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/gpatrick

Gentry Namón Patrick is an American biologist and Professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, San Diego. His research investigates the mechanisms that underpin synaptic activity in the central nervous system.^[1] He is interested in learning, the formation of memories and the processes that cause Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.