Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD, is Chief Executive Officer of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Director of the Institute for Regenerative Engineering, the Van Dusen Endowed Chair in Academic Medicine and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Matthew J. Cook, MPH is the CICATS webmaster and a research associate 2 in the Biomedical Informatics Division. He also maintains the CICATS social media accounts and CICATS Profiles.
CICATS Leader Named Health Care Hero
Dr. Lalande was named a Hartford Business Journal Health Care Hero
Congratulations to Dr. Marc Lalande, member of the CICATS leadership team. He has been named as one of the nine 2011 health care heroes honored by the Hartford Business Journal. Dr. Lalande is chair of the Genetics and Developmental Biology Department, and director of the Stem Cell Institute.
The Lalande laboratory in the Cell and Genome Science building is focused on the role of epigenetics in disease and development—epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene function. Lalande’s research team has spent years studying Angelman and Prader-Willi syndromes, two relatively rare genetic disorders. He says their goal is to broaden that research base to more common disorders such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia.
The heroes were nominated by their co-workers, clients, and patients and selected by independent judges, based on established criteria.
Learn more about the Dr. Lalande and the other recipient in the UConn Today story entitled “Two from UConn Health Center Named Health Care Heroes“
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