A Path from the Army ROTC into Vision Research

Mary Katherine Eddy, a sophomore in the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps and majoring in Physiology and Neurobiology at UConn, is training for leadership skills aimed towards a future career in medicine. Mary Katherine has received an IDEA grant award from the Office of Undergraduate Research to conduct research on Schwann cells in corneal repair. […]

New Approach Could Help Alzheimer’s Research – Yan Lab

Development of Alzheimer’s disease pathology is contributed from oligodendrocytes. UConn School of Medicine Professor and Chair of Neuroscience Riqiang Yan, Associate Professor of Neuroscience Xiangyou Hu, and their colleagues suggest a big data approach in the Nov. 17 issue of Molecular Degeneration. Collecting data on oligodendrocytes in systems biology research—those studies that look at large numbers of […]