Students

Sarah Palko has successfully defended her PhD thesis

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Palko The Mohan and Yan labs are proud to have jointly mentored the PhD thesis of Sarah Palko in retinal neurodegeneration spanning the fields of age-related macular degeneration and Alzheimer’s disease. We wish her the best as she departs UConn Health to embark on a postdoctoral fellowship at Trinity College Dublin […]

Emily Fabrizio-Stover UConn Graduate School commencement speaker

Commencement for UConn Health students is May 8. Meet the UConn Graduate School programs at UConn Health commencement speaker is Emily Fabrizio-Stover, 26, from Greenwich, Connecticut. She is a graduating Ph.D. student in biomedical sciences in the Neuroscience department at UConn School of Medicine.  To read the full article in UConn Today, please follow the […]

Annie Yao receives prestigious F30 NIH Fellowship

Annie Yao, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Riqiang Yan, has received a prestigious F30 fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Annie is a fourth year MD/PhD dual degree student.  Her F30 fellowship project is entitled “The role of beta-secretase 1 (BACE1) in modulating excitatory synaptic and circuit function and behavior” […]