As posted in UConn Today August 1, 2023 by Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research, Yulan Xiong, assistant professor of neuroscience at UConn Health, and her team have discovered that a regulator compound holds the potential to treat Parkinson’s Disease. Scientists have known that, in most familial cases, Parkinson’s […]

UConn Health press release on two recent research articles from Trakhtenberg lab, New insights into how axons grow could lead to effective therapies for blindness, paralysis (by Kim Krieger, published in UConn Today), was covered in research news of the NIH National Eye Institute, which funded these studies, and in multiple news outlets. The articles revealed new insights […]

Mohan lab publishes on a novel mechanism of retinal destruction from chemical injuries A major enigma for first responders and emergency workers when treating civilian populations exposed to chemical injuries is not knowing the real extent of ocular damage. The Mohan lab has established in a new research article (see below) that the internal neurosensory […]