It is our great pleasure to announce that Dr. Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos has joined the Department of Neuroscience as Professor of Neuroscience and the Janice and Rodney Reynolds Endowed Chair in Neurobiology on June 19, 2020. Dr. Castro-Alamancos received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University Complutense in Madrid, Spain, and his MS in […]
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Trakhtenberg “Spotlighted”
Dr. Ephraim F. Trakhtenberg, assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience was recently Spotlighted in the “President’s Corner” at The BrightFocus Foundation* for his new approach in regenerating the injured optic nerve. Read more about Dr. Trakhtenberg’s exciting discovery in the National Glaucoma Research Report: Spring 2019. *Nonprofit organization (501(c)(3), which supports research to […]
A New Culprit for MS Relapses
As posted in the UConn Today, May 9, 2019 – Kim Krieger – UConn Communications A molecule that helps blood clot may also play a role in multiple sclerosis relapses, research report in the May 6 issue of PNAS. The new research may help answer the mystery of why remissions happen, as well as find […]