School of Medicine
Generating a Comprehensive Cell Atlas of the Cerebellum
Yuanhao James Li, a professor at UConn Health, has received over $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the development of the neural networks in the cerebellum.
August 21, 2018 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research
News You Can Use to Beat the Back-to-school Blues
UConn Health experts weigh in on some of the more common back-to-school challenges that parents can help their children navigate.
August 16, 2018 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Jury finds Monsanto Liable in the first Roundup Cancer Trial – Here’s What Could Happen Next
A UConn Health professor with experience of trying to help figure out why people get cancer discusses implications of the Roundup verdict.
August 13, 2018 | Richard Stevens, School of Medicine
New $2M NIH Grant Studies Asymmetric Stem Cell Division
This latest project from professor of cell biology, Dr. Mayu Inaba, builds on her previous discovery of microscopic protrusions found only on stem cells.
August 13, 2018 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research
UConn Health Awards and Honors
Read the latest ways the excellence of UConn Health, UConn School of Medicine, and UConn School of Dental Medicine physicians are being recognized around the nation and world.
July 31, 2018 | Lauren Woods
$2M NIH Grant to Study Genetic Mechanisms of Inherited Heart Muscle Disorders
Dr. John Travis Hinson, a joint faculty member at UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine has received more than $2 million from the NIH to study a serious and often fatal heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
July 31, 2018 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research
Tracking Opioid Overdoses in Real-Time to Save More Lives
A new pilot program led by the Connecticut Poison Control Center and UConn Health’s Emergency Medicine Department is now tracking opioid overdoses in Hartford in real-time to help save more lives.
July 25, 2018 | Lauren Woods
Combination Therapy for Improved Bone Repair
A new NIH-funded project explores combining cell-laden hydrogels and ultrasound technology to improve bone defect repairs.
July 25, 2018 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research
New UConn Health Aging Researcher on Mission to Promote Healthy Aging
Ming Xu, Ph.D. has joined the UConn Center on Aging at UConn Health from the Mayo Clinic. Read about his new exciting aging research findings published this July in Nature Medicine showing how it may be possible to extend the human lifespan and healthspan someday with promising pharmacological interventions.
July 19, 2018 | Lauren Woods
Augmented Reality Surgical Microscope Added to UConn Health Armamentarium
UConn Health is first in the nation to acquire a high-tech surgical microscope with new augmented reality computer-generated digital imaging capabilities to visually assist surgeons during the most complex surgeries from brain (for stroke and tumors) to spine surgeries.
July 11, 2018 | Lauren Woods