Development of Alzheimer’s disease pathology is contributed from oligodendrocytes. UConn School of Medicine Professor and Chair of Neuroscience Riqiang Yan, Associate Professor of Neuroscience Xiangyou Hu, and their colleagues suggest a big data approach in the Nov. 17 issue of Molecular Degeneration. Collecting data on oligodendrocytes in systems biology research—those studies that look at large numbers of […]

Verma lab in collaboration of Bahal lab from Storrs campus has published their new finding about leveraging the  benefits of advanced gamma Peptic Nucleic Acid based miRNA-141 inhibitor for the treatment of ischemic stroke. Their finding was published in the journal Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acid.  In this work first author Dr Sanjeev Kumar Yadav found […]

Liang and Verma’s lab recently made headlines with their new NIH grant, featured on the front page of the Hartford Courant’s Sunday edition (10-12-2024) and highlighted on UConn news. Dr. Verma is collaborating with Dr. Liang on a project aimed at developing new stroke therapies using purinergic receptor P2X4 inhibitors. The NIH has awarded a […]