Welcome to the Paulson Lab!

University of Michigan Health System

Department of Neurology

Henry L Paulson Laboratory

Biomedical Sciences Research Building

109 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Room Number: 4160

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Congratulations to Hank Paulson for being named to the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council !

Dr. Henry Paulson is the Lucile Groff Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan and was a Research Professor at the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute. Dr. Paulson’s interests concern the causes and treatments of age-related neurogenerative diseases, with an emphasis on polyglutamine disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, and frontotemporal dementia. Dr. Paulson is a NINDS Landis Outstanding Mentor Award recipient as well as an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Endogenous retrovirus-like proteins recruit UBQLN2 to stress granules and shape

their functional biology. Sci Adv. 2025 Jul

PMID: 40680123

Insights into neurodevelopmental

features of Huntington's disease from stem cell-derived models including

organoids. J Huntingtons. 2025 Dec

PMID: 41384922

RTL8 promotes nuclear localization of UBQLN2 to subnuclear compartments associated with protein quality control. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2022 Mar

PMID: 35247097

Disrupting the Balance of Protein Quality Control Protein UBQLN2 Accelerates Tau Proteinopathy. J Neurosci. 2022 Jan

PMID: 35082119

RECENT AWARDS

Hari Mohan, graduate student, on successfully defending his thesis! We are incredibly proud of his hard work and dedication.

Dr. Merci Best, postdoctoral fellow, on being awarded a prestigious grant from the Alzheimer’s Association! Her research continues to make impactful strides in the field.

WELCOME,

Dan Lubicki !

We are excited to welcome Dan as a new PhD candidate to the lab. At the same time, we say goodbye to our postdoctoral fellow, Merci Best, and thank her for her contributions.

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