Mechanism
Mechanism
Tau structure, assembly, and nucleolar stress in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementia.
University of Sussex, UK
Mahmoud Bukar Maina
PhD · FRSA · Neuroscientist, educator & researcher
Decoding tauopathies across ancestries — bridging Sussex Neuroscience and African science capacity.
Mahmoud Bukar Maina
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Mahmoud Bukar Maina · Science across UK & Nigeria
/01 — Gallery
Two continents. One mission.
Research and presence across Sussex, UK and BioRTC, Nigeria — the visual story of a dual-continent lab.
Mahmoud Bukar Maina
Sussex · UK
Maina Lab
BioRTC · Nigeria
Tau · Microscopy
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/02 — Process
How the science moves — step by step.
Toggle between Maina Lab’s iPSC pipeline and tau aggregation pathway. Click any step or let the sequence play.
Skin fibroblasts from indigenous donors capture genetic diversity absent from most global biobanks.
United Kingdom
Sussex Neuroscience — where tau structure meets global collaboration.
/03 — Scholar
Peer-reviewed impact, presented clinically.
Sans-serif scientific typography — citation metrics and selected works from Google Scholar. Full bibliography linked below.
Citations
1,354
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Selected works
10
Curated on-site
| Year | Title | Journal | Cited |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Atypical, non-standard functions of the microtubule associated Tau protein | Acta Neuropathologica Communications | 91 |
| 2016 | Nuclear tau and its potential role in Alzheimer's disease | Biomolecules | 9 |
| 2018 | The involvement of tau in nucleolar transcription and the stress response | Acta Neuropathologica Communications | 70 |
| 2021 | Two decades of neuroscience publication trends in Africa | Nature Communications | 34 |
| 2022 | What is next in African neuroscience? | eLife | 11 |
Metrics last synced 2026-05. View full Google Scholar profile ↗
/04 — Research
Maina Lab — seen as much as read.
Image-led research story. Each pillar pairs photography with the science.
Maina Lab · Research in progress
Ancestry & iPSC
Ancestry & iPSC
Stem cells from diverse African donors — pathogenesis across backgrounds.
Dual-continent lab
Dual-continent lab
BioRTC, Nigeria · Sussex, UK — one mission, two hubs.
Live hub
Team news, grants & training on Maina Lab
Nigeria
BioRTC & Yobe — iPSC diversity and African science capacity.
/05 — Journey
A glimpse of the path — not a CV dump.
From Maiduguri to Sussex to global investigator: personality through story, one chapter at a time.
Origins
Human Anatomy & clinical roots
University of Maiduguri, Nigeria
BSc Human Anatomy; early neuroscience curiosity shaped by teaching psychiatry nursing and medical sciences in northeastern Nigeria.
2011 →
Sussex training arc
University of Sussex, UK
MSc Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience, then PhD in the Serpell Laboratory on tau and amyloid-β mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease.
Research
Tau, nucleolar stress & structure
Serpell Lab · Sussex Neuroscience
Published foundational work on nuclear tau, dityrosine cross-links, and tau filament assembly — bridging biophysics and disease biology.
Outreach
Africa science ecosystem builder
Nigeria · Uganda · UK
Founded TReND in Africa Outreach and Science Communication Hub Nigeria; Royal Society of Biology Science Communication Award (2017); FRSA (2018).
Today
Dual-continent Maina Lab
Sussex, UK · BioRTC, Yobe State University, Nigeria
iPSC models from diverse African donors to study how ancestry influences tauopathy pathogenesis — linked to policy via Yobe State science advisory role.
Forward
Global investigator · equitable neuroscience
EMBO GIN · Nature Communications · eLife
Building the next generation of African neuroscientists while pushing tau research and open science onto the global stage.
/06 — Impact
Beyond the bench — Africa science ecosystem.
LinkedIn and Facebook amplify this voice daily; the site anchors the story in one place.
TReND in Africa Outreach
Founder · outreach coordination
Science Communication Hub Nigeria
Founder · public access to science role models
Yobe State Government
Special Adviser for Science — policy & community linkage
Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
Fellow · enlarging science through public engagement
“When I am not in the lab, I am somewhere passionately promoting and communicating science.”
/07 — Highlights
Recent recognition & lab momentum.
Curated from Maina Lab news — proof of a brand in motion, not static credentials.
Vivensa Academy Rising Star Excellence Award
International recognition for advancing ageing and dementia research, with emphasis on biological mechanisms across diverse populations.
EMBO Global Investigator Network
First Nigerian and second African named to the prestigious EMBO Global Investigator Network cohort.
Imaging 4 All & CurePSP fellowships — Maina Lab team
Research assistants awarded competitive international training and fellowship support across imaging and tauopathy conferences.
Brain Data Science Academy, Lagos
Maina Lab researchers complete intensive neuroscience data science training with peers from across Africa.
Neuroscience Summer School — Tunisia
Contributing to early-career training across North Africa alongside European faculty colleagues.
/08 — Horizon
Futuristic headstart — where the work is going.
Not prophecy — informed bets from two decades of tau research and African neuroscience leadership.
Watching
How diverse genetic backgrounds reshape tauopathy models and therapeutic targets.
Building
A pipeline of African neuroscientists with world-class training and open science habits.
Inviting
Collaborators in iPSC biology, imaging, AI for science, and equitable dementia research.
/09 — Contact
Speaking, media, collaboration, or supervision.
Reach out for research partnerships, science communication, or advisory conversations — the same channels you already use on LinkedIn, now anchored here.