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 NeuroEngineering News Type (-) News Features Knight Initiative news Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image News Features | Dec 5 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscientists dive into the gut The 12th annual Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Symposium explored how our brains and bodies communicate—and what that means for our health and well-being Image News Features | Nov 21 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: A key protein may point toward new diagnostics and treatments for ALS and d... Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia are devastating neurodegenerative diseases. Knight Initiative postdoc Yi Zeng is working to understand the role a central protein plays in both diseases—and whether it might point toward new diagnostics and treatments Image Knight Initiative news | Nov 5 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience ‘Mind-blowing’ new perspectives on brain health and disease The Knight Initiative’s Fall Symposium featured researchers building new molecular atlases of the brain alongside new updates on neurodegenerative disease and what might be done about it. Image News Features | Oct 28 2025 Stanford Medicine Rethinking Alzheimer's: How these tiny balls of fat factor in Research from Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray's lab show that an Alzheimer's hallmark—myriad oily droplets in brain cells called microglia—may help connect several of the disorder’s better known but not well understood features. Image News Features | Oct 15 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute ‘A celebration’ of the gut and the brain Organizers of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s 12th annual symposium share exciting new discoveries from the frontiers of the “gut-brain axis.” Image News Features | Sep 22 2025 Stanford Medicine Gut feelings Untangling the complex connections between the gut, brain and microbiome to heal chronic GI conditions
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 News Features | Dec 5 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscientists dive into the gut The 12th annual Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Symposium explored how our brains and bodies communicate—and what that means for our health and well-being
Image News Features | Nov 21 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: A key protein may point toward new diagnostics and treatments for ALS and d... Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia are devastating neurodegenerative diseases. Knight Initiative postdoc Yi Zeng is working to understand the role a central protein plays in both diseases—and whether it might point toward new diagnostics and treatments
Image Knight Initiative news | Nov 5 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience ‘Mind-blowing’ new perspectives on brain health and disease The Knight Initiative’s Fall Symposium featured researchers building new molecular atlases of the brain alongside new updates on neurodegenerative disease and what might be done about it.
Image News Features | Oct 28 2025 Stanford Medicine Rethinking Alzheimer's: How these tiny balls of fat factor in Research from Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray's lab show that an Alzheimer's hallmark—myriad oily droplets in brain cells called microglia—may help connect several of the disorder’s better known but not well understood features.
Image News Features | Oct 15 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute ‘A celebration’ of the gut and the brain Organizers of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s 12th annual symposium share exciting new discoveries from the frontiers of the “gut-brain axis.”
Image News Features | Sep 22 2025 Stanford Medicine Gut feelings Untangling the complex connections between the gut, brain and microbiome to heal chronic GI conditions
