Knight Initiative News

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is pleased to welcome Nicholas Wall, PhD, as the new director of the Gene Vector and Virus Core (GVVC), which supports the Stanford neuroscience community through production of powerful viral genetic engineering tools.

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute interdisciplinary postdoctoral scholars Tal Iram and Miguel Garcia have been working to fill in gaps in neuroscience’s understanding of the development, function, and disease-impact of the brain's long-overlooked oligodendrocytes.

Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary postdoctoral scholar Boxuan Zhao tells us about designing new tools to create a "blueprint" for the brain and the surprising common ground between his passions for chemical biology, triathlon and scuba diving.

Former Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary postdoctoral scholar Sergey Stavisky discusses his passion for developing brain computer interfaces to restore speech and movement to people with paralysis.

Neuroscientist Ben Rein never intended to get into science communication. But simple frustration drove him to it after a shopping trip in early April of 2020, he says.

Neuroscientists face a paradox. The field aims to understand the mysteries of the human mind, but studying the actual human brain cells and circuits that produce our mental lives—and how they go awry in neuropsychiatric disease—is incredibly challenging.

Caitlyn Seim, a Wu Tsai Neuro Interdisciplinary Scholar and Neuroscience:Translate award recipient, develops human-centered wearable technology.

A new wireless system for motion tracking and neural recording developed by the Brain Interfacing Laboratory at Stanford will allow neuroscientists to study a wider range of behavior than had previously been possible.

Todd Coleman has joined Wu Tsai Neuro as our newest Institute Scholar. His home department, Stanford Bioengineering, asked him a to share a few stories about himself and his interests.

Noel Vest, PhD, hasn’t let his past experiences with addiction and incarceration keep him from a science career. He recently joined Stanford Medicine as a postdoctoral scholar in the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab, focusing on research and public polic

As the Stanford Neurosciences Institute relaunches under a new name – the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute – Clara Wu Tsai and institute director William Newsome talk about the future of brain science at Stanford.

Stanford researcher Rob Malenka, MD, PhD, is known as "a neuroscientist's neuroscientist." I

In an interview with Neuron, Robert Malenka shares his favorite discovery moments and discusses his philosophy for running a lab, the influence of his clinical training, and his broad interests, ranging from basic synaptic physiology to circuits mediating

Worry, particularly obsessive worrying, could be considered as a separate emotional trait from anxiety and depression when determining best treatment options for those with mental health disorders.

Meng-meng Fu is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Ben Barres at Stanford’s Neurobiology Department. She studies how macromolecules, such as proteins and RNA, move inside a cell from one location to another, specifically in a certain type of brain ce

A set of experiments in kids overturns conventional wisdom, and finds that parts of the brain grow as we learn to recognize faces.

Theo Palmer, associate professor of neurosurgery, has long sought to understand how genetic and environmental factors collide to shape brain function.

We discovered that this impairment in regulation of Miro may actually underlie both familial (inherited) and sporadic (not inherited, or unknown family tree) forms of Parkinson’s disease.

Taking breaks—from naps to sabbaticals—can help us to refocus and recharge

Robert Malenka, the Nancy Friend Pritzer Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, is famous for his discoveries on how neurons in our brain make and store new memories. He is also a pioneer in the field of addiction research