Knight Initiative News

The Neurosciences Theory Center member has been awarded a senior fellowship through the Schmidt Sciences Foundation's AI2050 program.

Stanford doctoral students spanning neuroscience, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering are developing innovative approaches to understanding the brain and links between it and the body.

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Thomas Montine and Alice Ting are among those joining the distinguished society of physicians.

Anne Brunet will receive a Director's Pioneer Award, and Bianxiao Cui will receive a Director's Transformative Research Award.

Stanford's Office of Postdoctoral Affairs has named Hulya Torun one of this year's Postdoc Champions

Andreasson received the Inge Grundke-Iqbal Award for her work on restoring cognition in Alzheimer's. Karly Cody, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Knight Initiative researcher Elizabeth Mormino, was also honored.

Institute director Kang Shen and affiliate Michelle Monje are among seven Stanford researchers joining the scholarly society, which works to promote science for public good.

Favour Nerrise, NeuroTech trainee and NeURO-CC mentor, won Stanford’s inaugural Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition grand prize and People’s Choice award! Her presentation was on artificial intelligence and early brain disease detection.

Neurotech trainee Favour Nerrise is among 10 grad students who will have three minutes to engage the audience—and a panel of judges—with their research projects at the April 17 event emceed by Stanford president Jonathan Levin.

Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Guosong Hong has been awarded a 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science

Liqun Luo, the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor and professor in the department of biology, is the recipient of the 2025 National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences. Awarded every three years, the prize recognizes extraordinary contributions to the progress of the fields of neuroscience. Luo is recognized for his contributions to our understanding of the development and organization of neural circuits.

Work on human cognition by the founding director of the Wu Tsai Neuro Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology was foundational for neural-network-based computational modeling 

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Lisa Giocomo has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator in the neurosciences, along with 10 other Stanford HHMI Investigators. This award highlights her exceptional research and dedication to mentoring the next generation of scientists.

Ten early career neuroscientists received the prestigious award from The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.

Seven Stanford faculty, including Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray, are among the 502 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

A dedicated philanthropist and Stanford GSB alum, Knight has provided game-changing support for schools and initiatives across campus.

The former chief of neuro-oncology at the Yale School of Medicine is a highly regarded scientist specializing in the study of brain tumors and an advocate of those underrepresented in medicine.

Knight Initiative Innovation Grant awardee and Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Jonathan Long received a Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding early-career faculty with the potential to revolutionize their fields of study.

The International Society for Stem Cell Research awards Sergiu P. Paşca the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his achievements in neurodevelopment and disease.

Students learned how behind every success is a story of perseverance, frustration, and failure in a fall quarter class featuring Stanford’s own Nobel laureates and MacArthur “genius” fellows, including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje.