Dr. Sebnem Tuncdemir of UConn Health has been awarded a 2025 Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation to explore how the brain forms and recalls traumatic memories. Her team studies how specific hippocampal cell types may drive PTSD-related memory problems—insights that could lead to innovative therapies for trauma and anxiety disorders. […]
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Peter Brown wins the 2025 ARVO MIT Outstanding Poster Award
Peter Brown, a second-year medical student at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, was recently awarded the Members-in-Training (MIT) Outstanding Poster Award at the 2025 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) conference. Among more than 11,000 scientists, Peter shared his recent efforts in the neuroscience vision lab of Drs. Royce Mohan and […]
Vision Research for Homeland Security in the Mohan lab
Peter Brown, a second-year medical student in the UConn School of Medicine, who is being mentored by Drs. Royce Mohan and Paola Bargagna-Mohan is studying how toxic chemicals cause injury to corneal nerves. Peter has received a prestigious travel award to present his latest findings at the 9th Military Vision Symposium at Harvard Ophthalmology/Mass Eye and […]