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The mission of the UConn School of Medicine is innovation, discovery and education. We train the next generation of medical students, residents, specialty fellows, and clinical practitioners in an environment of exemplary patient care, research, and public service.

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  • UConn Health Center Learning Equipment
    Advancing knowledge through basic, biomedical, clinical, translational, behavioral, and social research.
  • two female uconn health doctors
    Helping health care professionals maintain their competence through continuing education programs.
  • The School's new circular teaching hall.
    New teaching center for team-based learning.
  • UConn Health First in New England to Offer Robot-Guided Spine Surgery
    Developing, demonstrating, and delivering health care services based on effectiveness, efficiency, and the application of the latest advances in clinical, translational and health care research.
  • Patient Tower 2015
    Providing educational opportunities for those pursuing careers in the patient care professions, education, public health, biomedical and/or behavioral sciences.

The mission of the UConn School of Medicine is innovation, discovery and education. We train the next generation of medical students, residents, specialty fellows, and clinical practitioners in an environment of exemplary patient care, research, and public service.

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CICATS + IRE = Connecticut Convergence Institute
UConn has combined the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science and the Institute for Regenerative Engineering to form the Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering within the UConn School of Medicine. Read the announcement from Dr. Cato T. Laurencin (director), and Dr. Lakshmi Nair (associate director).

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School of Medicine Receives Full Accreditation
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) made the decision to grant UConn School of Medicine full accreditation of its medical education program for an eight-year term, the maximum term allowable. The LCME is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as the reliable authority for the accreditation of medical education programs.

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Annabelle Rodriguez-Oquendo, a UConn Health research, in her lab holding a pipette and smiling for the camera
Seven UConn Researchers Honored by the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Members of CASE are elected from among the state's leading experts in science, engineering, and technology.

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News

Abstract web of connecting lines with lights
CICATS + IRE = Connecticut Convergence Institute
UConn has combined the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science and the Institute for Regenerative Engineering to form the Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering within the UConn School of Medicine. Read the announcement from Dr. Cato T. Laurencin (director), and Dr. Lakshmi Nair (associate director).

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UConn Health Academic Building
School of Medicine Receives Full Accreditation
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) made the decision to grant UConn School of Medicine full accreditation of its medical education program for an eight-year term, the maximum term allowable. The LCME is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as the reliable authority for the accreditation of medical education programs.

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Annabelle Rodriguez-Oquendo, a UConn Health research, in her lab holding a pipette and smiling for the camera
Seven UConn Researchers Honored by the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Members of CASE are elected from among the state's leading experts in science, engineering, and technology.

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Spotlight

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Justin Cotney, Ph.D.

Meet Assistant Professor of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Justin Cotney, Ph.D.

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Events

  1. Apr 22 MBB JC: Dr. Melissa Caimano12:00pm
  2. Apr 23 MBB Seminar: Dr. Yolanda Sanchez12:00pm
  3. Apr 23 Neuroscience Seminar Series - Baraban4:00pm
  4. Apr 24 Cell Biology/CVB/Cardiology Wednesday Research Presentation12:00pm
  5. May 7 MBB Seminar: Dr. Nancy Freitag12:00pm

MBB JC: Dr. Melissa Caimano

Monday, April 22nd, 2019

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

UConn Health
E2036

“Extreme slow growth as alternative strategy to survive deep starvation in bacteria.”, Gray et al., Nat Commun. 2019 Feb 21;10(1):890.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08719-8

Contact Information: Bridget Clancy-Tenan, 860-679-2108, clancy@uchc.edu

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MBB Seminar: Dr. Yolanda Sanchez

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

UConn Health
Low Learning Center

"Promises and Challenges for Checkpoint Inhibitors as Anti-Cancer Drugs"

Contact Information: Bridget Clancy-Tenan, 860-679-2108, clancy@uchc.edu

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Neuroscience Seminar Series - Baraban

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

UConn Health
Low Learning Center

Sponsored by CURE (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy)

"Epilepsy and drug discovery in larval zebrafish"

Presenter:
Scott Baraban, Professor & William K. Bowes Jr. Endowed Chair in Neuroscience Research, UCSF
Adjunct Professor, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley

Talk summary: Zebrafish (Danio rerio) have emerged as a promising and valuable model organism. The increasing popularity of this small vertebrate is evident from the growing numbers of publications, and new discoveries associated with the use of zebrafish for studying development, brain function, human disease and drug screening. Owing to the development of novel technologies, the range of zebrafish research possibilities is constantly expanding with new imaging, electrophysiological, and gene editing tools enhancing traditional techniques. Despite the widespread success of zebrafish in the neuroscience community, epilepsy research using this organism is more limited. To address this issue, we began to adapt larval zebrafish for epilepsy related studies almost twenty years ago. With the rapidly expanding molecular and neuroscience tool box, we are now using zebrafish models mimicking human pediatric epilepsies with genetic causes. These genetically modified zebrafish are amenable to rapid drug screening, sophisticated behavioral analysis, long-term electrophysiological monitoring or whole-brain calcium imaging, and hold great potential to advance our understanding and treatment of epilepsy. In this lecture, I will highlight the past and present techniques which have made, and continue to make, zebrafish an attractive model organism in epilepsy research. I will focus on scn1 mutant zebrafish mimicking a catastrophic form of pediatric epilepsy known as Dravet syndrome, and our aquarium-to-bedside success screening repurposed drug libraries to identify novel lead compounds for this disorder. I will also discuss our on-going efforts to use CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technologies to generate zebrafish mutants for all known human epilepsy genes on the CURE EGI list.

Host: Dr. Eric Levine, eslevine@uchc.edu

CURE is a 501(c)3 dedicated to finding a cure for epilepsy. http://www.CUREepilepsy.org

Contact Information: Jody Gridley, gridley@uchc.edu, 860-679-8787

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Cell Biology/CVB/Cardiology Wednesday Research Presentation

Wednesday, April 24th, 2019

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

UConn Health
E5036

PRESENTER: Leia Shuhaibar, PhD

TITLE: "Phosphatase inhibitors enhance cGMP production by NPR2 in growth plate chondrocytes and could potentially be used to rescue bone growth in achondroplasia"

FACULTY: Laurinda Jaffe, PhD

Contact Information: Deb Allaire x1034

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MBB Seminar: Dr. Nancy Freitag

Tuesday, May 7th, 2019

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

UConn Health
Low Learning Center

"From soil to cytosol: the pathogenic transformation of the environmental bacterium Listeria monocytogenes"

Contact Information: Bridget Clancy-Tenan, 860-679-2108, clancy@uchc.edu

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