Faculty

Dr. Rajkumar Verma receives 2 million R01 grant for his work on ischemic stroke

Stroke remains a leading cause of disability in the United States. Stroke is a heterogeneous multifactorial disorder. Prior attempts at developing new therapies have failed in clinics due to imperfect target validation, unrealistic therapeutic windows and lack of age appropriate models. Thus, there is an opportunity and a need to identify new medical treatment for […]

A defense bunker for retinal citrullination – Mohan

A defense bunker for retinal citrullination To avert combating stress at the epicenter of phototransduction, the process by which light is converted to a neural signal in photoreceptors, neuroscience professor Royce Mohan at the UConn School of Medicine proposes that the mammalian retina may have evolved a novel defense strategy to respond to injury and […]