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 […]
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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 […]
A Path from the Army ROTC into Vision Research
Mary Katherine Eddy, a sophomore in the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps and majoring in Physiology and Neurobiology at UConn, is training for leadership skills aimed towards a future career in medicine. Mary Katherine has received an IDEA grant award from the Office of Undergraduate Research to conduct research on Schwann cells in corneal repair. […]