{"id":5456,"date":"2026-01-28T02:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:08:56","slug":"newly-endowed-chairs-and-professors-at-uconn-school-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/2026\/01\/28\/newly-endowed-chairs-and-professors-at-uconn-school-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Endowed Chairs and Professors at UConn School of Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><span>Newly Endowed Chairs and Professors Celebrated at UConn School of Medicine<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>January 28, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/01\/Endowed-chairs-2026-XiaoyanGuo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/01\/Endowed-chairs-2026-XiaoyanGuo-300x271.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/01\/Endowed-chairs-2026-XiaoyanGuo-300x271.png 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/01\/Endowed-chairs-2026-XiaoyanGuo-1024x925.png 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/01\/Endowed-chairs-2026-XiaoyanGuo-768x694.png 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/01\/Endowed-chairs-2026-XiaoyanGuo.png 1532w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Transformative research of UConn medical school faculty Danielle Luciano, Pedro Mendes, Sarah Feldstein Ewing, Guangfu Li, Patrick Murphy, and<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>Xiaoyan Guo<\/strong>, being generously supported by philanthropic donations to UConn\u2019s medical school through the UConn Foundation.<\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Xiaoyan Guo<\/strong>, Ph.D. joined the School of Medicine in 2022 in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences.<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Guo\u2019s Lab is actively investigating how mitochondria cross talk with the rest of the cell in health and diseases using CRISPR-based functional genomics. Her lab aims to identify potential therapeutic targets for these diseases such as Parkinson\u2019s disease and Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">More details at<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/01\/newly-endowed-chairs-and-professors-celebrated-at-uconn-school-of-medicine\/\" class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\">UConn Today<span class=\"glyphicon glyphicon-new-window\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly Endowed Chairs and Professors Celebrated at UConn School of Medicine January 28, 2026 Transformative research of UConn medical school faculty Danielle Luciano, Pedro Mendes, Sarah Feldstein Ewing, Guangfu Li, Patrick Murphy, and\u00a0Xiaoyan Guo, being generously supported by philanthropic donations to UConn\u2019s medical school through the UConn Foundation. Xiaoyan Guo, Ph.D. joined the School of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 16:11:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5457,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions\/5457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}