Faculty

UConn Researchers Honored by CASE

As posted in UConn Today, February 22, 2019   The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) has announced the election of 24 new members from among Connecticut’s leading experts in science, engineering, and technology.  Seven of these members were from UConn, including Riqiang Yan, Chair and Professor, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine. Read […]

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 […]