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Month: April 2018

Trakhtenberg Receives PITCH Promising Project Award

Posted on April 30, 2018January 4, 2019 by Jody Gridley

As posted in UConn Innovation Portal & UConn Today April 9, 2018 Two University of Connecticut professors have won a PITCH Promising Project Award to work on developing a novel approach for repairing optic nerve damage that occurs in optic neuropathies such as glaucoma. Ephraim Trakhtenberg and Jessica Rouge are the co-Principle Investigators for this project. […]

New Grant Tests Potential Target for Age-Related Blindness

Posted on April 23, 2018April 24, 2018 by Jody Gridley

Published in UConn Today, April 23, 2018 Royce Mohan, a UConn Health associate professor of neuroscience, has received more than $400,000 from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of a specific enzyme in retinal gliosis. Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of blindness in people over the age of […]