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January 12, 2012 | Carolyn Pennington - Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine

Health Center Accolades

A roundup of recognitions for Health Center faculty, staff and students.

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A roundup of recognitions for Health Center faculty, staff and students.

Douglas Oliver
Douglas Oliver

Douglas Oliver, professor in the Department of Neuroscience, has been elected to the rank of fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Oliver is being honored for his distinguished contributions to the field of neuroscience as well as scientific administration at the University of Connecticut.  Oliver and his team of researchers focus on the synaptic organization of the auditory system.

Oliver will be formally honored during the AAAS annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia on Feb. 18.

Marc Lalande (Al Ferreira for UConn).

Marc Lalande, chair of the Genetics and Developmental Biology Department and director of the Stem Cell Institute, was one of the featured speakers at a recent New York Academy of Sciences symposium.

The topic of the symposium was the “Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for the Study of Neurological Diseases.”  Lalande has spent much of his career studying Angelman Syndrome (AS), a genetic disorder occurring in approximately 1 in 15,000 births. Lalande and his team of researchers have generated individualized stem cells to create in vitro models of AS. Their goal is to figure out what’s wrong with the cells in order to evaluate drugs that could offer a treatment, possibly even a potential cure for AS.

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin (Steven Laschever for UConn Health Center)

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, director of the Institute for Regenerative Engineering and the chief executive officer of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, is one of three new members appointed to the National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NACBIB) of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).

NIBIB, a component of the National Institutes of Health, is dedicated to improving the fundamental understanding, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease through biomedical technology research and training. Dr. Laurencin is an expert in shoulder and knee surgery and an international leader in tissue engineering research. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Orthopaedic Surgeons, is widely published in scholarly journals and holds more than 20 U.S. patents.

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