Qinfang Liu, a graduate student from Dr. Yulan Xiong’s lab in our neuroscience graduate program, won the 2023 Henderson Award. This award is given annually to the student with the best dissertation in the Biomedical Science PhD program, UConn Health. During Qinfang’s PhD thesis study, he discovered both upstream regulation of LRRK2 mRNA decay and […]
Author: Barbara J Paquette
Dr. Antic receives School of Medicine 1st Year Teaching Award
Dr. Srdjan D. Antic is a co-director of a first stage course called “COrE-C” for medical and dental students. Nominated by first year medical and dental students, Dr. Antic has been selected as one of the faculty who best exemplifies excellence in advancing the education of students during the first year curriculum. The First Year […]
Xiong lab Identifies Key Mechanism for Parkinson’s Disease
As posted in UConn Today August 1, 2023 by Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research, Yulan Xiong, assistant professor of neuroscience at UConn Health, and her team have discovered that a regulator compound holds the potential to treat Parkinson’s Disease. Scientists have known that, in most familial cases, Parkinson’s […]