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 (-) NeuroEngineering News Type (-) Awards and honors Researcher profiles Wu Tsai Neuro News Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest 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 | 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 | 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 Researcher profiles | Jun 13 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Scott Linderman wins McKnight Scholar Award Linderman’s research group builds computational tools to extract simple structures from high-dimensional datasets, enhancing our understanding of the brain and its processes. He spoke with us about his work and the McKnight award. Image Awards and honors | Feb 15 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Linderman, Sadigh among 2022 Sloan Research Fellows The Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates join three other Stanford faculty members named 2022 Sloan Research Fellows. Image Awards and honors | Jan 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Zhenan Bao is awarded the VinFuture Prize for female innovators The chair of the School of Engineering’s Department of Chemical Engineering received the award for her innovations in bio-interfacing wearable health monitoring devices.
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 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 | 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 | 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 Researcher profiles | Jun 13 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Scott Linderman wins McKnight Scholar Award Linderman’s research group builds computational tools to extract simple structures from high-dimensional datasets, enhancing our understanding of the brain and its processes. He spoke with us about his work and the McKnight award.
Image Awards and honors | Feb 15 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Linderman, Sadigh among 2022 Sloan Research Fellows The Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates join three other Stanford faculty members named 2022 Sloan Research Fellows.
Image Awards and honors | Jan 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Zhenan Bao is awarded the VinFuture Prize for female innovators The chair of the School of Engineering’s Department of Chemical Engineering received the award for her innovations in bio-interfacing wearable health monitoring devices.
