At the Awards Ceremony of the 2019 Medical & Dental Student Research Day, the Dean’s Award for outstanding research presentation by a medical student went to Gwendolyn Schultz. Gwendolyn is a second year medical student who conducted her research project in the Neuroscience Department. She has also been selected to receive the Knights Templar Eye […]
Author: Jody Gridley
Dr. Rajkumar Verma’s journal article receives 1st place
Rajkumar Verma, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience has much to celebrate. His article titled, “Inhibition of miR-141-3p Ameliorates the Negative Effects of Poststroke Social Isolation in Aged Mice” was selected as the 1st prize winner of the 2018 Stroke Progress and Innovation Award. This award was presented at the 2019 International Stroke Conference of […]
Dr. Byoung-Il Bae Joins UConn Health
It is a great pleasure to announce that Dr. Byoung-Il Bae will join the Department of Neuroscience as an assistant professor on January 4, 2019. Dr. Bae received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University in 2006 under the guidance of Dr. Solomon H. Snyder. His Ph.D. thesis explored how mutant Huntingtin (mHtt) protein […]