Imitola selected as Sonnentag Distinguished Visiting Professor

Dr. Jaime Imitola was honored as the Sonnentag Distinguished Visiting Professor and Lecturer by the Department of Neuroscience and Neurosurgery of the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville. He presented a lecture in Human cellular models of Neurological diseases and translational neuroscience on July 22, 2024.   Dr. Imitola laboratory focus on translational neuroimmunology of Neural stem cells […]

Crocker Lab publishes new translational study in PNAS

A version of this story was recently posted in UConn Today Story by Lauren Woods, Assistant Vice President for Health Communications With a close family member living with multiple sclerosis Stephen J. Crocker, Ph.D., associate professor of neuroscience and immunology at UConn School of Medicine, takes his research personally. For the past 15 years as a […]

Mohan lab awarded NIH CounterACT program funding

The imminent threat of a terrorist attack in the United States involving chemical agents has created new challenges for homeland security (https://www.ninds.nih.gov/current-research/trans-agency-activities/counteract-program). In research aimed to counteract the ocular damage caused by chemical injury, the principal investigator Royce Mohan and co-investigator Paola Bargagna-Mohan have developed innovative insights into how corneal Schwann cells help to restore […]