A recent study lead by Pearl Sutter, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Stephen Crocker, which appeared in the prestigious Journal of Experimental Medicine (IF 17.579) on Sept 4, 2023 has received notice that it will also appear in a select issue of that journal to be released at the upcoming Society for […]
Awards
CounterACT NIH Translational Grant Awarded to the Mohan lab
The eye is one of the most sensitive organs that can be injured by toxic chemicals and warfare agents, but drug treatments to mitigate chemical-induced ocular pathology have not been developed. Alerted to increased threats posed by homeland terrorists who could cause mass casualty by chemical exposure, the trans NIH-agency CounterACT program was developed to […]
Qinfang Liu receives prestigious Henderson Award
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 […]