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 […]

(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-70319-4) Calcium imaging is a crucial and widely-used tool in modern systems neuroscience for monitoring neuronal activity. Typically, researchers assume that calcium transients reflect action potential firing. However, new findings by Milicevic et al. reveal that the strongest optical signals are generated when an action potential occurs on top of a plateau potential. Additionally, their […]