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 […]
Mohan lab receives cover of Journal of Neuroscience Research
The Mohan lab has recently identified the genetic signatures of corneal nonmyelinating Schwann cells, and illuminated novel biomarkers of this cell type. This paper has received the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jnr.24757 On the cover: Nonmyelinating corneal Schwann cells ensheathing axons in the corneal stroma were visualized by the expression of green […]