UConn undergraduate student Humza Zaidi has been selected to receive a 2021 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) award to conduct retinal research in the Mohan Lab. The SURF program is jointly sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research, the Provost’s Office, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Honors Program, donors to the […]
Sarah Palko wins an ARVO Travel Award from RRF
Sarah Palko, PhD trainee in the neuroscience department has won the Retina Research Foundation/Joseph M. and Eula C. Lawrence Travel Grant for her research project on age-related macular degeneration that she is pursuing in the Mohan lab (Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health). Her research presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) […]
Stopping Stroke Damage – Verma lab
As posted in UConn Today, February 11, 2021 Every year, strokes strike 800,000 Americans and are the leading cause of long-term disability in the U.S. because of the lingering brain injury they leave behind. But what if a medication used inside the brain could help heal a stroke’s damage? Innovative stroke therapy being developed at […]