Knight Initiative Team

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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

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Albina Ibrayeva

Director of Scientific Portfolio, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

Tony Wyss-Coray

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Tony Wyss-Coray

Director, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
D. H. Chen Professor II, Department of Neurology

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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.

Kelly Chau

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Kelly Chau, Life Science Research Professional II

Life Science Research Professional II, Brain Resilience Laboratory

Theodore Guo

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Theodore Guo, Research Associate, Brain Resilience Lab

Research Associate, Brain Resilience Laboratory

Misha Khan

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Misha Khan

Research Associate, Brain Resilience Laboratory

Andi Liu

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Andi Liu

Neurosciences Researcher, Brain Resilience Laboratory

Hulya Torun

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Hulya Torun, Postdoc Scholar at the Brain Resilience Lab

Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain Resilience Laboratory

Lu Zhou

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Lu Zhou

Senior Scientist, Brain Resilience Laboratory

Finance

Natasha Tractenberg

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Natasha Tractenberg, Associate Director of Finance and Administration at Wu Tsai Neuro

Associate Director of Finance and Administration, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Maritza Vallejo

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Maritza Vallejo

Accountant, Neurosciences Community Laboratories and Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

Communications

Nathan Collins

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Nathan Collins

Science Writer and Communications Strategist, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Julia Diaz

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Julia Diaz, Digital Community and Social Media Strategist

Digital Community and Social Media Strategist, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Nicholas Weiler

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Associate Director for Communications, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Program Administration

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Knight Initiative Steering Committee

The Steering Committee helps unite Stanford’s scientific community across disciplines in catalyzing discoveries in brain resilience and neurodegeneration.

Anne Brunet

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Anne Brunet

Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professor<br/>

Michael Greicius, MD, MPH

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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

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Albina Ibrayeva

Director of Scientific Portfolio, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

Emma Lundberg

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Emma Kaeller Lundberg

Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Pathology<br/>

Kathleen Poston, MD, MS

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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

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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

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Executive Director, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Tony Wyss-Coray

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Tony Wyss-Coray

Director, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
D. H. Chen Professor II, Department of Neurology

Alumni Academy and Advisors

Karl Deisseroth

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Karl Deisseroth

D. H. Chen Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences<br/>

William Newsome

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William Newsome

Harman Family Provostial Professor and Professor of Neurobiology and, by courtesy, of Psychology<br/>

Sylvia K. Plevritis, PhD

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Sylvia K. Plevritis, PhD

William M. Hume Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Radiology<br/>

Thomas Sudhof

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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/>