Natura Myeku
@myekulab.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Columbia University
We are hiring a postdoc to study proteostasis in neurodegenerative diseases. Here is the link to apply or email me.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We are hiring a postdoc to study proteostasis in neurodegenerative diseases. Here is the link to apply or email me.
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This rapid action by the Prebys Foundation is the kind of thing I hope other regional philanthropies are doing. It isn't the entire solution by far but it is great to see them chipping in to help investigators in the San Diego academic science community.
www.prebysfdn.org/stories/blog...
www.prebysfdn.org/stories/blog...
Prebys Foundation Announces $7 Million in Emergency Support for Biomedical Research
www.prebysfdn.org
July 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This rapid action by the Prebys Foundation is the kind of thing I hope other regional philanthropies are doing. It isn't the entire solution by far but it is great to see them chipping in to help investigators in the San Diego academic science community.
www.prebysfdn.org/stories/blog...
www.prebysfdn.org/stories/blog...
Check out our cool paper on proreasome’s state in early AD. academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
Early proteasome downregulation and dysfunction drive proteostasis failure in Alzheimer’s disease
Jiang et al. find that proteasome dysfunction occurs early in Alzheimer’s disease and worsens with disease progression, impairing the ability of neurons to
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June 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Check out our cool paper on proreasome’s state in early AD. academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
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As per the NIH POs in our session just now: Columbia University is having funding freeze lifted. Nice to hear some good news for a change!
June 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
As per the NIH POs in our session just now: Columbia University is having funding freeze lifted. Nice to hear some good news for a change!
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Major development a Columbia.
Unclear what effect this will have or how many grants it may affect. And it will be important to learn what Columbia gave up to get this.
But a major development nonetheless.
Unclear what effect this will have or how many grants it may affect. And it will be important to learn what Columbia gave up to get this.
But a major development nonetheless.
🚨 After more than three months, Columbia University is no longer frozen out of NIH funds, per source.
Terminated grants will not (yet) be reinstated, but money should begin flowing otherwise, I'm told.
Terminated grants will not (yet) be reinstated, but money should begin flowing otherwise, I'm told.
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
June 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Major development a Columbia.
Unclear what effect this will have or how many grants it may affect. And it will be important to learn what Columbia gave up to get this.
But a major development nonetheless.
Unclear what effect this will have or how many grants it may affect. And it will be important to learn what Columbia gave up to get this.
But a major development nonetheless.
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🚨 After more than three months, Columbia University is no longer frozen out of NIH funds, per source.
Terminated grants will not (yet) be reinstated, but money should begin flowing otherwise, I'm told.
Terminated grants will not (yet) be reinstated, but money should begin flowing otherwise, I'm told.
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
June 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🚨 After more than three months, Columbia University is no longer frozen out of NIH funds, per source.
Terminated grants will not (yet) be reinstated, but money should begin flowing otherwise, I'm told.
Terminated grants will not (yet) be reinstated, but money should begin flowing otherwise, I'm told.
We have a new preprint from the lab. Proteasome gene downregulation before tau accumulation in AD brains
Early Proteasome Gene Downregulation And Impaired Proteasomes Function Underlie Proteostasis Failure In Alzheimer's Disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.21.634128v1
January 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
We have a new preprint from the lab. Proteasome gene downregulation before tau accumulation in AD brains
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Happy to share a new paper from the lab, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: APOE4-associated heterogeneity in neuroimaging biomarkers across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 1/7
APOE ε4–associated heterogeneity of neuroimaging biomarkers across the Alzheimer's disease continuum
INTRODUCTION While the role of apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 in Alzheimer's disease (AD) susceptibility has been studied extensively, much less is known about the differences in disease presentation in...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Happy to share a new paper from the lab, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: APOE4-associated heterogeneity in neuroimaging biomarkers across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 1/7