Chinyere Iweka

The Iweka Lab (iwekalab.org) is now open in the Pharmacology Department in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Please join us to do exciting and awesome research in circadian biology and immunometabolism to study aging and disease!

I am excited and thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Pharmacology department @cwru as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024👩🏾‍🏫

I'm so excited to finally share the news that I was selected as a 2023 @SCAgingBrain Transition to Independence fellow! This award is truly life changing for me as it will provide funds for my future lab, and support to secure a faculty position. I'm so grateful!

I am extremely honored and grateful to have been selected as a recipient of the Simons Foundation Award. So grateful to my mentors Katrin Andreasson and Erin Gibson!

We're excited to share the NBPA 2022-2023 Annual Report (shorturl.at/ltBIN)! ❤️‍🔥 Please join us as we reflect on our tremendous teamwork and growth during the past year 🤝🏾📈 Thanks for your support, and we look forward to the future of our community of Black postdocs.

Our new paper by @Jjiyeon_lee is out in @NatureComms! She shows that circadian protein REV-ERBa regulates microglial lipid droplets and tau pathology, and that LDs inhibit microglial tau phagocytosis. Clock genes, microglia, lipid droplets, and tauopathy! nature.com/articles/s4146…

I have a secret for defeating imposter syndrome. Do you want to know what it is? 🧵

A Harvard Law-educated Black man rose up and became one of the most popular Presidents in modern history, and folks decided they had to burn down Affirmative Action to stop that shit from happening again. Disgraceful, America.

Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table. In the…

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Impressive remarks from @BarackObama today at @SNForg as he courageously draws a parallel between the media's focus on the #TitanicSubmarine and the tragic loss of approximately 700 asylum seekers in a recent shipwreck near #Pylos | #RefugeeWeek #Titanic

On this day in 1944, George Stinney, at 14 years, became the youngest person executed in the US in the 20th century. He was so small they had to stack books on the electric chair. Due to no evidence, his conviction was posthumously vacated 70years after his execution! A THREAD

I haven’t missed an @AACR Annual Meeting since 2017 and likewise, this year didn’t disappoint! Grateful to be a Women In Cancer Research awardee, serve as a panelist and mentor, and Judge for the Undergraduate Student Research Caucus and Poster Competition. #AACR23

CONGRATULATIONS to our very own Chair @FrankieDHeyward on his new position! We know great things are to come!!!

I am honored and excited to share that I will be joining @VTNeuro and @FralinBiomed at @virginia_tech as an assistant professor in Jan ‘24. My lab will focus on the development of cerebellar function and dystonia. ♥️🧡♥️

BREAKING NEWS! The NBPA and the hundreds of Black postdocs we support are proud to announce that @Natblackpostdoc is officially a 501c3 tax-exempt non-profit organization!!! We are excited to partner with donors and sponsors to help us better support the Black postdoc community!

gofund.me/bf49b36b

The talks were absolutely phenomenal today! 🔥🔥🔥 I love everytime I get a chance to hear my good friend @ChinyereIweka speak! @BWFUND The collab between @ASBMB X @natblackpostdoc was a huge success thanks to the amazing @CB_witha_PhD 🖤