Faculty Spotlight selects a specific faculty member from a number of nominations received by the department chairs. Dr. Douglas Oliver, Ph.D., professor and vice chair of neuroscience was nominated to highlight his substantial grant award from the Department of Defense for work aimed at developing an electrophysiological test for tinnitus. Dr. Oliver explains what his lab […]
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Leading Alzheimer’s Disease Expert Named Neuroscience Chair
Source: UConn Today, November 30, 2017 Dr. Riqiang Yan from the Cleveland Clinic has been named the new chair of the Department of Neuroscience. He will join us this spring and establish the medical school’s first research laboratory dedicated to studying and discovering potentially new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of neurodegenerative disease. Learn more […]
Trakhtenberg Lab – Interstellar Initiative honor
Source: UConn Today, September 14, 2017 – Chris DeFrancesco Ephraim Trakhtenberg, assistant professor of neuroscience, won an Interstellar Initiative honor from the New York Academy of Sciences and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development. Most recently he was awarded “First Place – Outstanding Early Career Investigator Team Presentation in Neurocience.” In March he […]