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 Theme (-) NeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth News Type (-) Awards and honors Press coverage Researcher profiles 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 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 | 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. 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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 | Feb 11 2024 International Society for Stem Cell Research Sergiu P. Paşca Receives the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his Pioneering Work i... The International Society for Stem Cell Research awards Sergiu P. Paşca the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his achievements in neurodevelopment and disease. Image Researcher profiles | Jan 12 2024 Stanford Report Nobel laureates and MacArthur fellows offer lessons in perseverance 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. Image Awards and honors | Oct 6 2022 Stanford News Stanford’s Carolyn Bertozzi wins Nobel in chemistry Stanford chemist Carolyn Bertozzi was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her development of bioorthogonal reactions, which allow scientists to explore cells and track biological processes without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell. Image Awards and honors | Oct 4 2022 Stanford Report Six Stanford researchers receive NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grants This year’s awardees are delving deeper into health care algorithms, advancing the production of 3D-printed organs, engineering bacteria to supercharge immune response, and much more. Image Awards and honors | Sep 22 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Emmanuel Mignot wins Breakthrough Prize for discovering cause of narcolepsy The Wu Tsai Neuro sleep researcher is honored for discovering the role of orexins in narcolepsy and paving the way to new sleep disorder therapies. Image Awards and honors | Sep 8 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Karl Deisseroth to share Horwitz Prize for pioneering contributions to optogenet... The Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and engineer is honored for developing a technology that lets researchers pinpoint the functions — and malfunctions — of specific brain circuits. Image Awards and honors | Jul 11 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Robert Malenka wins Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize 2022 The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute congratulates deputy director Robert Malenka for his 2022 Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize. Pagination Previous page Current page 1 Page 2 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Feb 11 2024 International Society for Stem Cell Research Sergiu P. Paşca Receives the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his Pioneering Work i... The International Society for Stem Cell Research awards Sergiu P. Paşca the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his achievements in neurodevelopment and disease.
Image Researcher profiles | Jan 12 2024 Stanford Report Nobel laureates and MacArthur fellows offer lessons in perseverance 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.
Image Awards and honors | Oct 6 2022 Stanford News Stanford’s Carolyn Bertozzi wins Nobel in chemistry Stanford chemist Carolyn Bertozzi was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her development of bioorthogonal reactions, which allow scientists to explore cells and track biological processes without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell.
Image Awards and honors | Oct 4 2022 Stanford Report Six Stanford researchers receive NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grants This year’s awardees are delving deeper into health care algorithms, advancing the production of 3D-printed organs, engineering bacteria to supercharge immune response, and much more.
Image Awards and honors | Sep 22 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Emmanuel Mignot wins Breakthrough Prize for discovering cause of narcolepsy The Wu Tsai Neuro sleep researcher is honored for discovering the role of orexins in narcolepsy and paving the way to new sleep disorder therapies.
Image Awards and honors | Sep 8 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Karl Deisseroth to share Horwitz Prize for pioneering contributions to optogenet... The Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and engineer is honored for developing a technology that lets researchers pinpoint the functions — and malfunctions — of specific brain circuits.
Image Awards and honors | Jul 11 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Robert Malenka wins Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize 2022 The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute congratulates deputy director Robert Malenka for his 2022 Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize.
