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.
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UConn School of Medicine is advancing the future of pancreatic care with Encapsulate, Inc., a precision medicine start-up company at the UConn Technology Incubation Program (TIP).
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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
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New program brings potentially lifesaving treatment for certain blood cancers closer to patients in Connecticut and the region
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In the future, all medical topics will be famous for four minutes
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UConn Health neurosurgeon Dr. Christopher Conner partnered through a joint program with specialists at Connecticut Children’s to bring deep brain stimulation to pediatric patients, helping Marie become the hospital’s first patient to receive the treatment for dystonia.
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Although people with excessive fat around the abdominal organs had greater risks of health complications, they also benefited more from HEPA filters
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Dr. Cristina Viguera, neurologist specializing in neuromuscular disorders, joins Dr. Anthony Alessi’s podcast
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2 UConn Health physicians share their recollection of being part of the response to the World Trade Center site Sept. 11, 2001
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The 43rd Annual Graduate Student Research Day honored professors in immunology and showed off the diversity of biomedical research at UConn’s School of Medicine.
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UConn Health study looks at extending health span.
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‘PRIMA will give us a new view to the universe, enabling observations of unprecedented sensitivity in the far-infrared’
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Enchantment can come from a comprehensive understanding
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A new paper highlights the rich variety of interactions between vertebrates and insects with an eye toward improving conservation
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The two reports are the Clery Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, and a report from the Office of Institutional Equity
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