Leadership
The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience is led by faculty director Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, and director of scientific portfolio Albina Ibrayeva, PhD.
Albina Ibrayeva
Director of Scientific Portfolio, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Tony Wyss-Coray
Director, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
D. H. Chen Professor II, Department of Neurology
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.
Alina Isakova
Director, Brain Resilience Laboratory
Kelly Chau
Life Science Research Professional II, Brain Resilience Laboratory
Theodore Guo
Research Associate, Brain Resilience Laboratory
James Haberberger
Data Architect, Brain Resilience Laboratory
Misha Khan
Research Associate, Brain Resilience Laboratory
Andi Liu
Neurosciences Researcher, Brain Resilience Laboratory
Jennifer Okamoto
Genomics Scientist, Brain Resilience Laboratory
Hulya Torun
Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain Resilience Laboratory
Lu Zhou
Senior Scientist, Brain Resilience Laboratory
Finance
Natasha Tractenberg
Associate Director of Finance and Administration, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Maritza Vallejo
Accountant, Neurosciences Community Laboratories and Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Communications
Nathan Collins
Science Writer and Communications Strategist, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Julia Diaz
Digital Community and Social Media Strategist, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Nicholas Weiler
Associate Director for Communications, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Program Administration
Zulema Garibo Gonzalez
Training and Fellowships Program Coordinator, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
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<br/>
Anne Brunet
Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professor<br/>
Aaron D. Gitler
Stanford Medicine Basic Science Professor<br/>
Michael Greicius, MD, MPH
Iqbal Farrukh and Asad Jamal Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Administrative and Academic Special Programs)<br/>
Albina Ibrayeva
Director of Scientific Portfolio, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Alina Isakova
Director, Brain Resilience Laboratory
Emma Lundberg
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Pathology<br/>
Kathleen Poston, MD, MS
Edward F. and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor of Neurology and the Neurological Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery<br/>
Kang Shen
Vincent V.C. Woo Director, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Frank Lee and Carol Hall Professor and Professor of Biology and of Pathology<br/>
Jill Wentzell
Executive Director, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Tony Wyss-Coray
Director, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
D. H. Chen Professor II, Department of Neurology
Alumni Academy and Advisors
Karl Deisseroth
D. H. Chen Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences<br/>
William Newsome
Harman Family Provostial Professor and Professor of Neurobiology and, by courtesy, of Psychology<br/>
Sylvia K. Plevritis, PhD
William M. Hume Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Radiology<br/>
Thomas Sudhof
Avram Goldstein Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences<br/>