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 […]
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Recent discoveries from Trakhtenberg lab covered in the news
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 […]
Elias Mullane Delivers an Outstanding Scientific Presentation
Elias Mullane Delivers an Outstanding Scientific Presentation Third year medical student Elias Mullane from the UConn School of Medicine presented his research capstone project at the Annual Neuroscience Retreat that was held at the Mark Twain house and Museum. Elias is conducting research in the Mohan lab in the neuroscience department studying how Muller glia […]