Daylin Gamiotea Turro, a postdoctoral fellow in the Verma lab, has received the 2024 Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Science Award from the American Heart Association (AHA). With the support of this fellowship, Daylin will contribute to our ongoing research on the Encephalomyosynangiosis (EMS) procedure to improve post-stroke recovery. EMS promotes a vascular niche […]
Trakhtenberg Lab Seeing a Path to Nerve Regeneration
Ephraim Trakhtenberg and his team at UConn showed that a protein called nuclear factor erythroid 3 (Nfe3) can stimulate regrowth of optic nerve cells. “This opens a whole new novel realm of research. It could help glaucoma and other types of nerve damage,” according to Trakhtenberg. A team of researchers in the lab of […]
Ricky Paramo aims high on Ophthalmology residency
Ricky Paramo, a fourth-year medical student at the UCONN School of Medicine, will be pursuing his residency training at New York Medical College (NYMC). Founded in 1875, NYMC represents the oldest partnership between a private medical school and a hospital in the United States. Ricky has trained in ocular research with Drs. Royce Mohan and […]