Neuroscience News

Zeena Khazendar has been selected as a 2022-23 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact for her work to advance global health access and outcomes.

The Wolf Prize is a prestigious international award given to disciplines in science and art.

The Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates join three other Stanford faculty members named 2022 Sloan Research Fellows.

The award recognizes significant contributions to mentorship and to increasing diversity in STEM fields.

The grant supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as leaders in integrating education and research.

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate James Gross is among nine faculty members from Stanford and SLAC who have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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.

Stanford’s Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program recognizes faculty for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education. Provost Persis Drell announced the eight faculty members — including three Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates — who

Wu Tsai Neuro faculty affiliate Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, was one of four Stanford Medicine faculty members elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

The neuroscientist and pediatric neuro-oncologist is being recognized for her work to understand healthy brain development and create therapies for a group of lethal brain tumors.

Discoveries by Deisseroth and his two co-recipients regarding microbial light-activated molecules led to his development of a way to manipulate selected neurons in living animals to observe changes in their behavior.

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute member Shaul Druckmann, PhD, has been named to receive a 2021 McKnight Foundation Scholar Award for his research into how the brain computes using activity distributed across populations and brain areas.

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute member Fei-Fei Li is one of 12 members of a new National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force, which will write a road map for expanding access to critical resources and educational tools that will spur AI i

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute members Guosong Hong and Justin Du Bois have been awarded the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching

Stanford has awarded the Stanford Alumni Association (SAA) Outstanding Achievement Award to three graduating seniors, including MARÍA VALENTINA SUÁREZ-NIETO, one of Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute's inaugural NeURO fellows and part of the SUNS leadership t

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute members recently received top honors from two of America’s leading scientific academies. Four faculty affiliates of the Institute were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and three were elected to the Natio