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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 (-) Wu Tsai Neuro News Knight Initiative news Researcher profiles Research news Awards and honors Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Mar 29 2018 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Eric Shooter, founding chair of Department of Neurobiology, dies at 93 A pioneering protein chemist at Stanford, Shooter parsed the physiological roles of key brain growth factors. He also hired and nurtured young faculty who would become highly successful scientists. Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Dec 27 2017 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscientist Ben Barres, who identified crucial roles of glial cells, dies at ... The Stanford neuroscientist's research focused on the cells in the brain that aren't nerve cells. Collectively called glia, these "other" cells play a central role in sculpting and maintaining the brain's wiring diagram. Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Oct 24 2017 Stanford Medicine - Scope Stanford’s longevity center celebrates ten years We need to collaborate on issues surrounding aging — not just physical health, but also cognitive health and financial security — and that they needed to figure out how to take advantage of the opportunities that longer lives presented. 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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 | Mar 29 2018 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Eric Shooter, founding chair of Department of Neurobiology, dies at 93 A pioneering protein chemist at Stanford, Shooter parsed the physiological roles of key brain growth factors. He also hired and nurtured young faculty who would become highly successful scientists.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Dec 27 2017 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscientist Ben Barres, who identified crucial roles of glial cells, dies at ... The Stanford neuroscientist's research focused on the cells in the brain that aren't nerve cells. Collectively called glia, these "other" cells play a central role in sculpting and maintaining the brain's wiring diagram.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Oct 24 2017 Stanford Medicine - Scope Stanford’s longevity center celebrates ten years We need to collaborate on issues surrounding aging — not just physical health, but also cognitive health and financial security — and that they needed to figure out how to take advantage of the opportunities that longer lives presented.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Oct 5 2017 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford Neurosciences Institute awards seed grants The Stanford Neurosciences Institute recently awarded its second round of seed grants to six interdisciplinary teams of researchers.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Sep 13 2017 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford Neurosciences Institute awards second round of Seed Grants The Stanford Neurosciences Institute has awarded its second round of Seed Grants to six interdisciplinary teams of researchers working to solve problems in neuroscience.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Feb 8 2017 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford neuroscientists take their Big Ideas on decision-making, neurotechnolog... The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is elevating three research programs to become the flagship Big Ideas collaborations focusing on brain rejuvenation, neurotechnology and decision-making.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jun 30 2016 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Finalists announced for the 2016 Art of Neuroscience competition Eleven images representing a broad cross section of neuroscience research have been chosen as finalists in the Stanford Neuroscience Institute’s Art of Neuroscience competition.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 25 2016 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Thomas Clandinin is named the first Shooter Family Professor Thomas Clandinin, professor of neurobiology, has been appointed the first Shooter Family Professor, created to support a member of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Aug 27 2015 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford Neurosciences Institute awards first round of Seed Grants The Stanford Neurosciences Institute awarded their first round of Seed Grants, funding five projects, each of which brings together two or more faculty members to solve problems within the field of neuroscience.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jul 6 2015 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford-based Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center to be launched A new Stanford-based center will receive nearly $7.3 million in funding over a five-year period to conduct interdisciplinary research on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Feb 3 2014 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience Graduate Students Celebrate John Huguenard's Leadership The Neuroscience PhD students celebrated the leadership of John Huguenard on Friday, January 31 at a reception where he passed the torch to a new Director of the Graduate Program, Anthony Ricci.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 16 2014 Scope Blog Dinners spark neuroscience conversation, collaboration Sometimes big discoveries start with small conversations.
