School of Medicine

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

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

Rising sophomore and Health Research Program participant Alveena Ehsan shares her research during the poster session.

Showcasing Summer Research

Summer Research Day celebrates accomplishments of student researchers in the TIP Innovation Fellowship and Health Research programs

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

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

Adobe Stock word cloud about MS

When Multiple Sclerosis is Personal

Neuroscientist Stephen J. Crocker, Ph.D. of UConn School of Medicine and colleagues are on a hunt for a new treatment for MS

Dr. Ketan Bulsara Elected to Prominent Role for American Association Neurological Surgeons/Congress Neurological Surgeons Joint Section

Through a nationwide election, Dr. Ketan Bulsara, chief of the Division of Neurosurgery at UConn Health has been elected the 43rd chair of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Joint Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery. 

The Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. Travel Fellowship Award at the World Biomaterials Congress in South Korea

Named in honor of a distinguished member of the Society for Biomaterials, the Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. Travel Fellowship supports underrepresented undergraduate students studying the field of biomaterials. 

New York Institute of Technology Grants Professor Cato T. Laurencin Honorary Degree

As an honored guest of the 63rd commencement ceremony, Laurencin was also a guest speaker at the College of Osteopathic Medicine.