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 […]
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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” […]
Ophthalmology in plain sight for Ezii
Ophthalmology in plain sight for Ezii Ezigbobiara Umejiego (fondly known as Ezii) from the UConn School of Medicine took a gap year to earn his master’s in public health. Aspiring to become an Ophthalmologist, Ezii combined his studies with research in the Mohan lab in the neuroscience department to investigate mechanisms of ocular injury from […]