The Power of Possible.
What do we mean when we talk about the power of possible?
At UConn Health, it is harnessing the unique nature of an academic medical center for the advancement of health and medicine. It’s scientists and researchers seeking to make the impossible possible for our patients. It’s teaching the next generation of healthcare providers to imagine beyond what is, to what can be. It’s our work at the bed side, every day; committed, passionate people caring for those trusting us in a moment of need.
Seeing beyond what is, to what’s possible.
At UConn Health, our researchers don’t study subjects. They care for people.
Stormy Chamberlain, assistant professor of genetics and genome sciences at UConn Health, is a new breed of scientist unafraid to let her research subjects have names and faces — and families. In fact, she invites them all into her UConn Health lab to meet her team of students and watch them research Angelman syndrome, a rare neurogenetic condition that causes severe cognitive delays, seizures, and impaired bodily coordination…and a surprisingly sunny disposition. Read More. Watch Video.
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Creating the medicine of tomorrow, today.
Our job isn’t just to make you better – although we do that exceptionally well. Our job is to make medicine better.
UConn has launched the H.E.A.L. Project (Hartford Engineering a Limb), a grand research challenge with the mission of regenerating a human knee in seven years and a human limb by 2030. It is the brainchild of orthopaedic surgeon-scientist and regenerative engineering expert Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, building upon his innovative laboratory research of growing human bone and knee ligaments. Read More.
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Medicine doesn’t change until we change it.
At UConn Health, we don’t just discover the problems, we take the lead in creating the answers for tomorrow.
UConn endocrinologist Annabell Rodriguez-Oqendo recently found that common mutation in a gene that regulates cholesterol levels may raise the risk of heart disease in carriers. Now, we want to figure out a way to fix it. The answers may impact the current standard of care for heart disease prevention and treatment for patients. Read More.
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Next stop, possible.
Since 1972, almost 5,000 future dentists and doctors have come through the UConn Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine on their way to making great things happen.
Our unique role, as one of 145 academic medical centers in the country gives us a first-hand view of the hard work, determination, and high aspirations these next generations bring to their learning. Here is the story of one group, reaching the next stop in that journey to what they will make possible. Read More. Watch Video.
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We believe in possible.
At UConn Health, we work to find the fastest, most effective treatments and cultivate the body’s ability to heal itself.
Injuries to the rotator cuff, the team of muscles and tendons that keep the arm bone firmly socketed in the shoulder, can cause the loss of ability to lift or move the arm. Even after traditional surgery, some rotator cuffs never heal. UConn surgeon Augustus D. Mazzocca and his team are using their patients’ own adult stem cells to regenerate tendon and muscle connections to the bone. Read More. Watch Video.
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Possible is what happens when we refuse to give up.
Inspiration comes from all around us, especially those who refuse to give up.
Sometimes, that person is a provider. Sometimes, it is a patient. In this story you will meet Ryan, who not only inspired us with his fight against cancer, but with this determination to not let that fight keep him from another important goal, graduating college. Watch Video.
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