Knight Initiative News

Goldsmith received the 2017 Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Mentorship Award from the IEEE Communications Society in recognition of her efforts to bring diversity to her field and opportunity to her students.

Part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the award supports exceptionally creative scientists pursuing new research directions to develop pioneering approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

Five Stanford scientists are among the 86 nationwide who have received awards from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward program.

Stanford Medicine faculty, staff, residents and students were honored for teaching and clinical skills.

The Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer will be honored for three distinct contributions to the medical field: optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry and research into depression.

Karl Deisseroth was honored with the Fresenius Research Prize for three distinct contributions to the medical field: optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry and research on depression.

The winners of the individual awards are Ben Barres, a professor at Stanford Medicine, and James Jordan, a senior manager at the Stanford Alumni Association. The winner of the program award is the Diversity and First-Gen Office.

MICHAEL FRANK, associate professor of psychology, was recently awarded the 2017 Early Career Impact Award for Cognitive Science Society by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS).

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has announced 19 Stanford faculty among its first cohort of 47 investigators from Bay Area university collaborators. These investigators will work toward curing, preventing and managing every disease.

The Stanford institute’s grant program funds projects that support innovative clinical and translational research on maternal and child health.

Karl Deisseroth is one of two recipients of the 2016 Harvey Prize in Human Health, which is being awarded for the development of optogenetics.

Congratulations are in order for entrepreneur/philanthropist Sean Parker, founder of the Parker Foundation; Ann Arvin, MD, who has dedicated her career to understanding infectious diseases in children; and attorney John Levin, chair of the Stanford Health

Stanford Neurosciences Institute member Xiaoke Chen is first recipient of the Firmenich Next Generation Fund to support his work to study the way our body's sense of self motivates behavior.

The Stanford recipients are among 88 scientists nationwide to receive Pioneer, New Innovator, Transformative Research and Early Independence awards through the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward program. The awards total about $127 million and are supported by

The 2016 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award recognises ground-breaking work that has illuminated our understanding of the way in which our eyes send signals to the appropriate areas of the brain. This work may offer hope of fighting vision disorders by mea

The first research paper to describe a new phenomenon gets all the glory. A high profile publication. A great line on the scientist’s CV. Another step toward tenure.
What about the paper that verifies or fails to verify the phenomenon? That researcher ra

Stanford bioengineer, neuroscientist and practicing psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, heads a huge, prolific laboratory but also oversees a program he set up years ago to train researchers from all over the world in the use of optogenetics.

The psychiatrist and bioengineer is being honored for his groundbreaking work in creating a viable technique for installing light-driven “on” and “off” switches on the surfaces of nerve cells, enabling investigators to learn exactly what they do.

Juliet Knowles, Megan Wyeth and Christopher Makinson awarded American Epilepsy Society grants.

As previously announced, Stanford neuroscientist Carla Shatz, PhD, received the happy news that she was a winner of the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience; here now is a look at the scene in her lab yesterday afternoon.