Dr. Srdjan D. Antic is a co-director of a first stage course called “COrE-C” for medical and dental students. Nominated by first year medical and dental students, Dr. Antic has been selected as one of the faculty who best exemplifies excellence in advancing the education of students during the first year curriculum. The First Year […]
Xiong lab Identifies Key Mechanism for Parkinson’s Disease
As posted in UConn Today August 1, 2023 by Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research, Yulan Xiong, assistant professor of neuroscience at UConn Health, and her team have discovered that a regulator compound holds the potential to treat Parkinson’s Disease. Scientists have known that, in most familial cases, Parkinson’s […]
Recent discoveries from Trakhtenberg lab covered in the news
UConn Health press release on two recent research articles from Trakhtenberg lab, New insights into how axons grow could lead to effective therapies for blindness, paralysis (by Kim Krieger, published in UConn Today), was covered in research news of the NIH National Eye Institute, which funded these studies, and in multiple news outlets. The articles revealed new insights […]