Featured News Image Research news | Feb 2 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Aging brains pile up damaged proteins Proteins that start life inside neurons build up faster in old age and spread to other brain cells—a potential source of neurological mischief Image Research news | Jan 22 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience A new atlas could help guide researchers studying neurological disease The database of lysosomal proteins is already helping researchers study how brain cells’ waste and recycling systems work—or don’t—in Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases Image Director's messages | Jan 12 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Happy New Year from Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen welcomes the Wu Tsai Neuro community to 2026, reflects on our recent milestones, and wishes the community a happy and productive new year Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 12 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Big Ideas in Neuroscience tackle brain science of everyday life and more 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 News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth NeuroEngineering News Type (-) Awards and honors Press coverage Researcher profiles Research news Wu Tsai Neuro News Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Awards and honors | Nov 10 2025 Stanford H&S Surya Ganguli named AI2050 Senior Fellow The Neurosciences Theory Center member has been awarded a senior fellowship through the Schmidt Sciences Foundation's AI2050 program. Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Oct 30 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neuro welcomes 2025 Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows 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. Image Awards and honors | Oct 29 2025 Stanford Medicine Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Medicine Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Thomas Montine and Alice Ting are among those joining the distinguished society of physicians. Image Awards and honors | Oct 8 2025 Stanford Report Wu Tsai Neuro scientists awarded NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grants Anne Brunet will receive a Director's Pioneer Award, and Bianxiao Cui will receive a Director's Transformative Research Award. Image Awards and honors | Sep 30 2025 Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Brain resilience lab researcher wins Stanford award for community impact Stanford's Office of Postdoctoral Affairs has named Hulya Torun one of this year's Postdoc Champions Image Awards and honors | Jul 27 2025 Alzheimer's Association Alzheimer's Association honors Katrin Andreasson 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. Image Awards and honors | Apr 30 2025 Stanford News Wu Tsai Neuro faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences 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. Image Awards and honors | Apr 23 2025 Stanford Report Students break down big ideas in inaugural 3-Minute Thesis Competition 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. Image Awards and honors | Mar 19 2025 Stanford Report Finalists chosen for Stanford’s first 3-Minute Thesis competition 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 proje Image Awards and honors | Feb 3 2025 Vilcek Foundation Transparency in science: Guosong Hong transforms deep-tissue imaging Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Guosong Hong has been awarded a 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science Image Awards and honors | Jan 27 2025 Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences Liqun Luo wins National Academy of Sciences neuroscience award Liqun Luo, the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor and professor in the department of bio Image Awards and honors | Sep 30 2024 Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences Jay McClelland receives 2024 Golden Goose Award 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- Image Awards and honors | Jul 23 2024 Stanford Report HHMI invests over $300 million in 26 new investigators 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. Image Awards and honors | Jun 20 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Longzhi Tan named a 2024 McKnight Scholar Ten early career neuroscientists received the prestigious award from The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. Image Awards and honors | Apr 18 2024 Stanford Report Seven Stanford faculty named AAAS Fellows 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. Image Awards and honors | Apr 9 2024 Stanford Report Phil Knight honored with Uncommon Citizen award A dedicated philanthropist and Stanford GSB alum, Knight has provided game-changing support for schools and initiatives across campus. Pagination Previous page Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page
Image Research news | Feb 2 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Aging brains pile up damaged proteins Proteins that start life inside neurons build up faster in old age and spread to other brain cells—a potential source of neurological mischief
Image Research news | Jan 22 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience A new atlas could help guide researchers studying neurological disease The database of lysosomal proteins is already helping researchers study how brain cells’ waste and recycling systems work—or don’t—in Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases
Image Director's messages | Jan 12 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Happy New Year from Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen welcomes the Wu Tsai Neuro community to 2026, reflects on our recent milestones, and wishes the community a happy and productive new year
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 12 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Big Ideas in Neuroscience tackle brain science of everyday life and more 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
Image Awards and honors | Nov 10 2025 Stanford H&S Surya Ganguli named AI2050 Senior Fellow The Neurosciences Theory Center member has been awarded a senior fellowship through the Schmidt Sciences Foundation's AI2050 program.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Oct 30 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neuro welcomes 2025 Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows 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.
Image Awards and honors | Oct 29 2025 Stanford Medicine Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Medicine Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Thomas Montine and Alice Ting are among those joining the distinguished society of physicians.
Image Awards and honors | Oct 8 2025 Stanford Report Wu Tsai Neuro scientists awarded NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grants Anne Brunet will receive a Director's Pioneer Award, and Bianxiao Cui will receive a Director's Transformative Research Award.
Image Awards and honors | Sep 30 2025 Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Brain resilience lab researcher wins Stanford award for community impact Stanford's Office of Postdoctoral Affairs has named Hulya Torun one of this year's Postdoc Champions
Image Awards and honors | Jul 27 2025 Alzheimer's Association Alzheimer's Association honors Katrin Andreasson 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.
Image Awards and honors | Apr 30 2025 Stanford News Wu Tsai Neuro faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences 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.
Image Awards and honors | Apr 23 2025 Stanford Report Students break down big ideas in inaugural 3-Minute Thesis Competition 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.
Image Awards and honors | Mar 19 2025 Stanford Report Finalists chosen for Stanford’s first 3-Minute Thesis competition 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 proje
Image Awards and honors | Feb 3 2025 Vilcek Foundation Transparency in science: Guosong Hong transforms deep-tissue imaging Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Guosong Hong has been awarded a 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
Image Awards and honors | Jan 27 2025 Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences Liqun Luo wins National Academy of Sciences neuroscience award Liqun Luo, the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor and professor in the department of bio
Image Awards and honors | Sep 30 2024 Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences Jay McClelland receives 2024 Golden Goose Award 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-
Image Awards and honors | Jul 23 2024 Stanford Report HHMI invests over $300 million in 26 new investigators 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.
Image Awards and honors | Jun 20 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Longzhi Tan named a 2024 McKnight Scholar Ten early career neuroscientists received the prestigious award from The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.
Image Awards and honors | Apr 18 2024 Stanford Report Seven Stanford faculty named AAAS Fellows 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.
Image Awards and honors | Apr 9 2024 Stanford Report Phil Knight honored with Uncommon Citizen award A dedicated philanthropist and Stanford GSB alum, Knight has provided game-changing support for schools and initiatives across campus.
