As posted in UConn Today September 15, 2021 | Kim Krieger UConn Communications Mutations in a protein known to cause Parkinson’s Disease derange transportation in and out of brain cells, reports a team of UConn Health researchers in the 27 July issue of Science Signaling. The toxic traffic jams that result eventually lead to […]
Patent With Alzheimer’s Promise – Riqiang Yan
As posted in UConn Today, August 13, 2021 August 9, 2021 | Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research UConn Patents Novel Combination Approach for Alzheimer’s Treatment Dr. Riqiang Yan, professor and chair of the Department of Neuroscience, has published a paper putting forth a novel combination of compounds that could […]
Award for Excellence presented to Gwen Schultz
At the UConn School of Medicine awards ceremony for the 2021 graduating class, Gwendolyn Schultz from the Mohan lab was presented with the Award for Excellence in a Specific Discipline for her research in Ophthalmology. Her research presentation titled “A glial point of view: investigating corneal Schwann cells in ex vivo murine organ and whole-eye […]