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. […]
Xiong Lab discovers missing regulator in Parkinson’s Disease
Yulan Xiong and her team have discovered a much-searched-for regulator that plays a key role in genetic causes of Parkinson’s Disease. Please see link below to view the full article in today’s UConn Today: UConn Researcher Discovers Missing Regulator in Parkinson’s Disease
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 […]