School of Medicine

St Lucia Academy Founding Fellows

Professor Sir Cato T. Laurencin: Founding Fellow of The Saint Lucia Academy of Technology, Science, and the Arts

Vision of UConn's Laurencin incorporated in The Saint Lucia Academy of Technology, Science, and the Arts.

BMT team at Tandem Meetings in front of poster

BMT Nurses Shine at 2026 Tandem Meetings

Three nurses of The Blood and Marrow Transplantation team at UConn Health presented the program’s latest research findings in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Waterbury Hospital Joins UConn Health Community Network,  Strengthening Care for the Community  

Transition creates a new system of care for the Waterbury community and beyond  

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Aging Research in U.S. Accelerated by Major ARPA-H Contract

UConn Center on Aging is Part of a National Research Consortium Testing a Drug Originally Developed for HIV Treatment as a New Possible Gerotherapeutic Therapy for Biological Aging

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Thank a Resident Today!

UConn Health currently trains over 850 medical residents and over 110 dental residents

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Deepening a Partnership, Honoring a Microneurosurgical Pioneer

American Surgical Company endows UConn Health lecture series honoring Dr. Takanori Fukushima, advancing neurosurgical leadership and collaboration

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Better Than Penicillin

Replacing the world's wonder drug with something bacteria can't resist

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin of UConn in blue suit with arms crossed.

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin of UConn Ranked Number One in Orthopaedic Surgery in the U.S. by ScholarGPS

Laurencin is ranked number 8 in the world.

Department of Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves portrait and Dr. Tony Alessi candid at microphone in studio

‘Healthy Rounds’: Medicaid Myths, Keeping CT Families Healthy

Department of Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves and Dr. Alessi discuss the impacts of social determinants of health

Nesting dolls with protein shell, aptamers, Zinc cage, etc. in the decorations, with the mRNA surrounded by fatty molecules like a jewel in the center.

mRNA’s Matryoshka Move

Researchers copy viral strategies to get mRNA medicines into cells in one piece