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UConn Health Minute: Women’s Center for Motion and Performance

Women are more susceptible to certain injuries such as ACL tears, stress fractures and osteoarthritis. The Women’s Center for Motion and Performance at UConn Health addresses those challenges and empowers women to stay healthy and active at every stage of their life.

Artist's conception of b-cells.

B-cell, Begone! This Protein May Protect Against Immune Malfunction

Researchers at UConn Health look for ways to defuse B-cells gone bad

John P. McGovern Award

Porcine Hydrogels Hold Potential Key for Regenerative Engineering

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin leads team researching a gap in regenerative engineering that could be solved with material collected from pig skeletal muscle

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Suschana

$1 Million and Counting in Free Community Care by UConn Students

Since 2007 the Urban Service Track/AHEC Scholars at UConn have been providing critical health care access to underserved Connecticut citizens directly inside their communities as they train together to be the next generation of well-rounded primary care and health care professionals

Varun Chamarty ’26 (ENG) poses for a photo in a lab in the Academic Building of the UConn Health campus

Of Mice and Machine Learning

Varun Chamarty ’26 (ENG) hopes that machine learning will help researchers make discoveries that they might otherwise not be able to see, using new tools to build on a growing body of neuroscientific research

two men hoisting bicycles over their heads on a beach

Back From Biking Coast-to-Coast

Dental students continue 19-year UConn Health tradition of cycling cross-country for a cause

Large Intestine Human Digestive System Anatomy For Medical Concept 3D Illustration

MS Changes the Microbiome Subtly but Similarly, Whether in US or Asia 

Multiple sclerosis affects about a million people in the US, and millions more elsewhere in the world

Elderly couple walking side-by-side in a park

Live Longer, Die Healthier

UConn researchers have demonstrated a treatment that could lengthen life—and vigor—up to the very end

Dr. Ketan Bulsara lecturing in teh Academic Rotunda at UConn Health (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health photo).

Prestigious Scientific Honor Society Inducts UConn Health’s Neurosurgery Chief

Dr. Ketan Bulsara joins Sigma Xi, the world’s largest multidisciplinary honor society for scientists and engineers

Jon Gorman works in the IT Department at UConn Health and primarily supports the technical needs of health care providers and staff caring for patients at the Outpatient Pavilion.

Kindness, Pass it On

'Being kind can go a long way to improving someone else’s day,' says UConn Health IT Department’s Jon Gorman