Knight Initiative News

In this research roundup, we look back on some of the ways Knight Initiative scientists have been pursuing ways to keep our minds sharp well into old age

We talk with neuroscientist Boris Heifets about the new federal push to accelerate research on psychedelic drugs for mental health treatment

Three PhD candidates took top honors at this year’s event, translating years of research into presentations everyone in the room could understand.

Shingles vaccines appear to have a protective benefit, Knight Initiative researcher Pascal Geldsetzer has shown.

We talk with neurologist Kathleen Poston about early signs of Parkinson's outside the brain and how they might influence treatment and detection

The Rosenkranz Aging and Rejuvenation Seed Grant Program announced eight innovative new research projects with additional support from the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

The Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery Prizes will give Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong and Knight Initiative-supported researcher Pascal Geldsetzer $750,000 each over three years to develop research on neurodegenerative diseases.

Frank Longo's long trek nears its destination

A brain region specialized for recognizing text is smaller or absent in kids with dyslexia, but tutoring partly closes the gap

Researchers from around the world convened at Stanford to present their latest work on neurodegeneration and brain resilience

Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray and others talked to Nature Aging about aging research

From studying post-viral fatigue to engineering transparent mouse brains, round three of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s Big Ideas grants will push the bounds of what’s possible

A recent meeting gathered scientists, ethicists, patient advocates and more to discuss organoid ethics.

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

We speak with neurologist Katrin Andreasson about new links between inflammation, metabolism and new hopes for treating neurodegeneration

Join us as we look back on some of the key studies we covered here at Wu Tsai Neuro and the Knight Initiative in 2025 to give a (very partial) overview of the impact of our community’s research efforts this past year

Stanford Data Science and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute launched the Center for Neural Data Science as a collaborative hub to accelerate discovery in neuroscience and train the next generation of data-driven neuroscientists

The 12th annual Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Symposium explored how our brains and bodies communicate—and what that means for our health and well-being

If the results are confirmed, an expert said, the Knight Initiative-funded research "would be groundbreaking for dementia"

A new study from Knight Initiative researchers suggests that the two-dose shingles shot also may slow the progression of dementia