Knight Initiative | Our Team
Leadership
The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience is led by faculty director Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, and associate director Natasha Hussain, PhD.
Brain Resilience Laboratory
The Brain Resilience Lab is the main research hub of the Knight Initiative, hosting the latest transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics technologies to create detailed molecular maps of the human brain.
Finance
Philipe Irola
Associate Director for Finance and Administration, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute & Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Maritza Vallejo
Accountant
Neurosciences Community Laboratories
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Community Laboratories
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Communications
Julia Diaz
Digitial Community and Social Media Strategist, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute & Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Knight Initiative Steering Committee
The Steering Committee helps unite Stanford’s scientific community across disciplines in catalyzing discoveries in brain resilience and neurodegeneration.
Monther Abu-Remaileh
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Genetics
Anne Brunet
Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professor
Karl Deisseroth
D. H. Chen Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Aaron D. Gitler
Stanford Medicine Basic Science Professor
Michael Greicius, MD, MPH
Iqbal Farrukh and Asad Jamal Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Administrative and Academic Special Programs)
Natasha K. Hussain
Associate Director, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Thomas Montine, MD, PhD
Stanford Medicine Professor of Pathology
Sylvia K. Plevritis, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Radiology (Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford)
Kathleen Poston, MD, MS
Edward F. and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor of Neurology and the Neurological Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Kang Shen
Vincent V.C. Woo Director, Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute, Frank Lee and Carol Hall Professor and Professor of Biology and of Pathology
Knight Initiative Senior Advisory Board
The Senior Advisory Board, which includes neuroscientists from different institutions, provides advice and guidance on research strategy and direction.
Nir Barzilai
Director of the Institute for Aging Research, the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging Research and of the NIH Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Chair in Aging Research and Professor, Department of Medicine (Endocrinology) and Genetics at Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Chair in Aging Research and Professor, Department of Medicine (Endocrinology) and Genetics at Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Carolyn Bertozzi
Baker Family Director of Stanford ChEM-H, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Radiology
Lennart Mucke
Director, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes
Joseph B. Martin Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology, University of California San Francisco
Joseph B. Martin Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology, University of California San Francisco
Karoly Nikolich
Serial Entrepreneur and Venture Partner, Pivotal Bioventures
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford
Stephen Quake
Lee Otterson Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, of Applied Physics and, by courtesy, of Physics
Eric Reiman
Executive Director of the Banner Alzheimer's Institute, Chief Executive Officer of Banner Research
University Professor of Neuroscience at Arizona State University (ASU), Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona
Clinical Director of Neurogenomics at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), and Director of the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium
University Professor of Neuroscience at Arizona State University (ASU), Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona
Clinical Director of Neurogenomics at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), and Director of the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium
Carla Shatz
Sapp Family Provostial Professor, The Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X and Professor of Biology and of Neurobiology
Thomas Sudhof
Avram Goldstein Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Contact Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Stanford Neurosciences Building
290 Jane Stanford Way, Rm E152
Stanford, CA 94305
brainresilience@stanford.edu
