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“Chia-Ling Kuo et al. demonstrate the Healthspan Proteomic Score (HPS), derived from chronological age and the expression levels of 86 proteins, is a strong predictor of disease and mortality risk. Lower HPS values are associated with higher risks of disease and mortality. Pictured is a “biological clock” representation hinting that proteins inform the HPS, which can inform our healthspan. Here, the clock’s hand is a 3D rendering of growth/differentiation factor 15 (GDF15), a protein predictor of healthspan. Image credit: Bernard L. Cook III, PhD, who conceptualized, illustrated, and composed the final image, and Illustrate, the software used to render GDF15 (Goodsell DS, Autin L, Olson AJ (2019) Illustrate: Software for Biomolecular Illustration. Structure 27, 1716-1720).”

Scientists Develop New Blood-Based Proteomic Score to Predict Healthspan and Disease Risk

UConn School of Medicine study published in PNAS introduces Healthspan Proteomic Score as a biomarker for healthy aging

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Dr. Cato T. Laurencin 2025 Wallace H. Coulter Lecturer at Pittcon

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, MD, Ph.D., K.C.S.L, was the keynote 2025 Wallace H. Coulter Lecturer at the world renowned Pittcon Conference in Boston.

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Recent Graduate Named to Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange

The fellowship provides American and German young professionals the opportunity to spend one year in each other’s countries

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Dr. Cato T. Laurencin of UConn Receives Bioactive Materials Lifetime Achievement Award

The Bioactive Materials Lifetime Achievement Award serves as a catalyst for advancing the field, fostering international collaboration, and inspiring innovation.

UConn senior Noah Sneed with Dr. Cato T. Laurencin.

2025 Dr. Cato T. Laurencin ScHOLA²RS House Award Recipients

Professor Sir Dr. Cato T. Laurencin awarded three outstanding students the ScHOLA2RS House/ Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. Award at the graduate convention banquet.

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2025 Dickson Prize in Medicine Goes to Professor Sir Cato T. Laurencin of UConn

Sir Cato T. Laurencin, Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Connecticut, is the recipient of the 2025 Dickson Prize in Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh’s highest honor.

Imitola Lab image shows the inside of a 3D brain organoid formation's layers of stem cells. Blue is nuclear staining, red is SOX2, a stem cell marker, and green is a cortical neuron progenitor marker (CITP2).

First Stem Cell Medicine Course for Clinicians Available for Free

UConn School of Medicine Expertise and Leadership Contributes to International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and Harvard Medical School’s First Global Continuing Education Course for Clinicians and Medical Students.

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Pharmacy Professor Honored by National Academy of Medicine

Raman Bahal has been named an Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholar, just one of ten nationally to earn that designation

Dr. Cato Laurencin and Dr. Samuel Laurencin

Black Men in White Coats Youth Summit: Dr. Cato Laurencin and Dr. Samuel Laurencin

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin and his nephew Dr. Samuel J. Laurencin participated in the Waterbury, Connecticut event.

Dr. Jaclyn Olsen Jaeger is a geriatrician at UConn Health and educator at UConn School of Medicine (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health photo).

UConn’s Dr. Jaclyn Olsen Jaeger Appointed to Two National Education Committees

Olsen Jaeger of the UConn Center on Aging will serve on the Education Committees of both the ACP and PALTmed