Research at UConn School of Medicine
UConn School of Medicine is home to many cutting-edge research programs with renowned research teams propelling powerful discoveries and innovations. Since the medical school’s inception, part of its institutional fabric has been its commitment to advancing scientific and medical discovery by growing high-quality research programs. Today, our research enterprise has reached new heights with year-after-year landmark funding exceeding $100 million. Our research expertise knows no boundaries spanning across disciplines, campuses, state and international lines, from basic science to clinical research and trials, to translational research at the patient’s bedside, to population, public, behavioral and social health arenas. Our goal is improving the health and well-being of the people of Connecticut and the globe by translating our discoveries into new patient care advances, health care technologies, and biotech start-up companies.
Science in Seconds

Got a minute?
Take a look at our latest research happening.
Lab Notes

Read our research blog
Learn more about our latest study publications.
-
Researchers copy viral strategies to get mRNA medicines into cells in one piece
- category: lab-notes
- columns: 1
- pictures: true
- number-of-posts: 1
- read-more-text: Continue Reading
- show-excerpt: false
- show-date: false
- safe-fetch: 1
- attempted-request: https://today.uconn.edu/wp-rest/wp/v2/posts?category-name=lab-notes&posts_per_page=1&adjacent-posts=true&_embed
Research
Faculty in the School of Medicine are actively involved in a variety of innovative and cutting edge basic science, epidemiological, biobehavioral, and clinical/translational research activities. A major focus of this effort is the translation of our discoveries into advances in patient care and the licensing of new technologies and devices to the private sector.
In the News
In the News
-
Laurencin was honored in a graphic timeline of over the past 100 years that celebrated the milestone achievements of Black life scientists.
-
Vision of UConn’s Laurencin incorporated in The Saint Lucia Academy of Technology, Science, and the Arts.
-
Three nurses of The Blood and Marrow Transplantation team at UConn Health presented the program’s latest research findings in Salt Lake City, Utah.
-
Transition creates a new system of care for the Waterbury community and beyond
-
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
-
UConn Health currently trains over 850 medical residents and over 110 dental residents
-
American Surgical Company endows UConn Health lecture series honoring Dr. Takanori Fukushima, advancing neurosurgical leadership and collaboration
-
Replacing the world’s wonder drug with something bacteria can’t resist
- category: meds
- columns: 4
- pictures: true
- number-of-posts: 8
- read-more-text: Continue Reading
- show-excerpt: true
- show-date: true
- safe-fetch: 1
- attempted-request: https://today.uconn.edu/wp-rest/wp/v2/posts?category-name=meds&posts_per_page=8&adjacent-posts=true&_embed
-
UConn professor’s research pit narrative versus nonnarrative pictorial warning labels against one another and measured their emotive effects
-
‘When the professors saw my passion, they were excited for me to be able to do this’
-
Transition creates a new system of care for the Waterbury community and beyond
-
To date, nearly 800 faculty and staff have participated in listening sessions, small group meetings, and one-on-one discussions
- category: school-of-medicine-research
- columns: 4
- pictures: true
- number-of-posts: 4
- read-more-text: Continue Reading
- show-excerpt: true
- show-date: true
- safe-fetch: 1
- attempted-request: https://today.uconn.edu/wp-rest/wp/v2/posts?category-name=school-of-medicine-research&posts_per_page=4&adjacent-posts=true&_embed
Got Research News?
Do you have an embargoed research publication or national meeting abstract presentation coming up? If you think it might catch the media’s attention due to its significant impact on the future of health sciences or patient care, please fill out this online form before the embargo lifts to have it featured by UConn Health’s News Team.