Congratulations to Annie Yao, Xiangyou Hu and all other authors for the publication of a cover article by the Journal of Neuroscience: Yao AY, Halloran PJ, Ge Y, Singh N, Zhou J, Galske J, He W, Yan R, Hu X (2023) Bace1 deletion in the adult reverses epileptiform activity and sleep-wake disturbances in AD mice. […]
Students
Qinfang Liu receives prestigious Henderson Award
Qinfang Liu, a graduate student from Dr. Yulan Xiong’s lab in our neuroscience graduate program, won the 2023 Henderson Award. This award is given annually to the student with the best dissertation in the Biomedical Science PhD program, UConn Health. During Qinfang’s PhD thesis study, he discovered both upstream regulation of LRRK2 mRNA decay and […]
Xiong lab Identifies Key Mechanism for Parkinson’s Disease
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 […]