Dr. Dealy teaches courses on Clinical Innovation for medical and dental students, as well as Skeletal Biology, Developmental Biology, Stem Cells, and Scientific Writing for graduate students.

She is the former director of UConn Health’s PhD program in Skeletal Biology and the founder and former director of Eggsperiencing Biology, a middle school STEM outreach program.

Dr. Dealy has mentored 47 trainees in her research laboratory, from junior faculty to undergraduate students; 50% of her mentees are underrepresented, and 70% are women.  

Research, Innovation, Leadership, and Major Service Roles:

Research: Dr. Dealy’s research is based on her long-standing interest in the human skeleton. Her research is exploring the cells and signals that control cartilage development and growth, as well as the response of adult cartilage to injury and aging that lead to disabling conditions like osteoarthritis. Her current studies are identifying agents that activate latent regenerative capacity by articular cartilage tissue.  These agents offer clinical utility for improving cartilage repair outcomes or as treatments for osteoarthritis.

Innovation: Dr. Dealy is committed to translating the results of her research toward clinical benefit through research commercialization. She is an inventor with two issued patents and a serial startup founder.  She is an alumnus of the NSF-iCorps Accelerate UConn entrepreneurship training program and the ABCT Accelerator for Biosciences in Connecticut program.

Leadership: Dr. Dealy is active in the innovation ecosystem at UConn and in the State and serves as faculty liaison for UConn’s flagship entrepreneurship training program, Accelerate UConn.  She is also founder and director of the TIP Innovation Fellows program, a student internship program that places UConn students with UConn-affiliated startup companies for mentored entrepreneurship experience (220 student and 70 companies have participated to date). She is also prior founder and director of the Connecticut Partnership for Innovation and Education (PIE), a consortium 9 Connecticut institutions of higher education that engaged 188 students in bioscience research and career development.  Currently, Dr. Dealy is leading a state-wide workforce development and education initiative for QuantumCT, Connectiut’s quantum technology engine.

Community Service: Dr. Dealy is a founding member of the Connecticut Chapter of Women in Bio, a professional leadership organization, and co-chairs its mentorship and advising committee. Dr. Dealy is also a former chair and co-chair of StemCONN, Connecticut’s biannual bioscience and stem cell conference.

Ongoing projects include:

• Identifying growth factor signals that promote regenerative responses in injured articular cartilage
• Developing translatable therapeutic approaches for osteoarthritis 

Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time.

Please see Dr. Dealy for more information on research opportunities.

Ongoing projects include:

• Identifying growth factor signals that promote regenerative responses in injured articular cartilage
• Developing translatable therapeutic approaches for osteoarthritis 

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