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Meet the Researcher: Mark Litt, UConn Health

“Why do we do that?” Substitute “do that” with any number of behaviors: smoking cigarettes even though we know it’s bad for us, drinking too much, picking up a vaping habit, and you have what Mark Litt has dedicated his life to investigating. Litt, a professor of oral health and diagnostic sciences and psychiatry in […]

Mostafa Analoui, executive director of venture development, speaks with Kashmira Kulkarmi, chief scientist, and Alex Tikhonov, senior scientist at Azitra's technology incubator lab at the Cell and Genome Sciences Building in Farmington on Feb. 8, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Venture Development Helps Foster CT Business Opportunities

UConn's Mostafa Analoui sits down with MetroHartford Alliance to discuss how the University's entrepreneurship and venture development programs support business opportunities in the state.

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Power of Possible: Surviving Cardiac Arrest

Learn how the 'out-of-hospital chain of survival' system helped a young heart attack victim.

Eating for a Healthy Heart

Although no single food is a cure-all, certain foods have been shown to improve your heart health. Watch the video to see which top 10 heart healthy foods are among those recommended by UConn Health’s Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center.

Khadija Poitras-Rhea

UConn Health Adds AVP for Population Health

Khadija Poitras-Rhea is a licensed clinical social worker who will lead the institution's focus on population health.

Scanning electron microscope image of lung trachea epithelium. (Charles Daghlian/ Wikimedia Commons)

Assembling the Facts of Cilia Assembly and Function

A $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for two UConn Health professors could lead to unraveling mysteries about cilia assembly and function.

Innovation concept. (Yagi Studio via Getty Images)

Celebrating UConn Inventors

In honor of National Inventors' Day, here's to all of UConn's faculty, staff, and student inventors.

CT Convergence Institute homepage slide "Explore. Discover. Treat. Cure. Teach. Repeat"

Medical School Announces New Institute for Regenerative Engineering

Following is an announcement from Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, director of the new Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering, and Associate Director Lakshimi Nair.

Vials in a mass spectrometer

UConn’s Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility Gives Faculty a Complete Cellular Picture

UConn's Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility houses multiple mass spectrometers and provides faculty expert support to see the full cellular picture.

Laurencin, a pioneering expert in the field of regenerative engineering, spoke at MS&T 18 about how novel systems using graphene-ceramics, for example, could provide new possibilities for bone regeneration. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Receives 2019 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize

The Abelson Prize recognizes Dr. Cato Laurencin's global leadership in biomedical technology innovation, public service in shaping United States technology policy and invaluable mentorship to a generation of minority scientists.