George A. Ricaurte is a neurology researcher who works at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Department of Neurology. He received his doctorate in Pharmacology from the University of Chicago.

His research focuses on Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. His work center on amphetamine-type stimulants and their potential to damage brain monoamine-containing neurons, including dopamine neurons (which degenerate in Parkinson’s disease). The long-term goal of this neurotoxicology research is to help find ways to prevent – or retard – the progression of Parkinson’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders. His work also has implications for the drug abuse field and substance abuse neuropsychiatric disorders.

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American pharmacologists