James Fink, Ph.D., graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program (Levine Lab) has double the reasons to celebrate. He not only successfully defended his doctoral defense on January 29, 2018, titled “Understanding Synaptic Pathophysiology and Hyperexcitability in Angelman and Chromosome 15q Duplication Syndromes Using Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells”, but he was also selected as this […]
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Faculty Spotlight – Featuring Dr. Douglas Oliver
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 […]
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 […]