{"id":7457,"date":"2025-02-11T11:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2025-02-11T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:34:01","slug":"michael-li-lands-a-spot-in-ophthalmology-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2025\/02\/11\/michael-li-lands-a-spot-in-ophthalmology-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Li lands a spot in Ophthalmology residency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael\u00a0Li, a fourth-year medical student in the UConn School of Medicine successfully matched to his top choice in Ophthalmology Residency. Michael\u00a0has completed four years of research in the Mohan lab in the Neuroscience department, pioneering the study of corneal Schwann cells and helping identify a novel treatment for axonal regeneration. His remarkable trajectory stems from his research publications and earning the Deans Award, followed by a prestigious travel fellowship to present his original research findings at the 2024 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology symposium. His dedication and exemplary preparation towards one of the most competitive fields for medical residency was announced today with his selection into the Residency Program in Ophthalmology at Rhode Island Hospital and The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. The Mohan lab wishes him the best in his medical career at Brown!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7458 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-1024x935.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-768x701.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-1536x1402.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-2048x1870.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/274;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-1024x935.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-768x701.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-1536x1402.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Michael-Li-2048x1870.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael\u00a0Li, a fourth-year medical student in the UConn School of Medicine successfully matched to his top choice in Ophthalmology Residency. Michael\u00a0has completed four years of research in the Mohan lab in the Neuroscience department, pioneering the study of corneal Schwann cells and helping identify a novel treatment for axonal regeneration. His remarkable trajectory stems from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 22:29:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7459,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions\/7459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}