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 News Type (-) Researcher profiles Awards and honors Press coverage Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Researcher profiles | Jul 24 2025 Stanford Report ‘The human brain remains the final frontier’ Stanford neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca is pioneering technology to recreate human brain tissue and neural circuits in the lab – giving scientists unprecedented access to human brain development and opening new possibilities for treating disorders from psychiatric disease to chronic pain. 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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 Researcher profiles | Jul 24 2025 Stanford Report ‘The human brain remains the final frontier’ Stanford neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca is pioneering technology to recreate human brain tissue and neural circuits in the lab – giving scientists unprecedented access to human brain development and opening new possibilities for treating disorders from psychiatric disease to chronic pain.
Image Researcher profiles | Jul 10 2025 Stanford H&S Foundational research on brain development may help prevent degeneration Stanford neurobiologist Carla Shatz, famous for discovering how neural connections develop early in life, is using that knowledge to work on the problem of how they can later deteriorate from Alzheimer’s disease.
Image Researcher profiles | May 5 2025 Stanford Momentum The neuroscience of understanding Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams is unlocking how the brain turns sound into meaning.
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 29 2025 Stanford News ‘Step by step, we’ve made a huge amount of progress’ Molecular biologist Luis de Lecea is mapping the brain circuits that control sleep so we can manipulate them for a better night’s rest.
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 14 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Favour Nerrise has a plan to spot brain disease early with AI Favour Nerrise, NeuroTech trainee and NeURO-CC mentor, is competing in Stanford’s inaugural 3-Minute Thesis competition on April 17 presenting research that uses at–home tech and artificial intelligence to spot brain disease.
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 9 2025 Stanford Report We need to understand how something works before we can understand how it breaks Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Lauren O’Connell explores the fundamental questions that underlie human relationships
Image Researcher profiles | Mar 12 2025 Stanford Report Meet the frogs helping scientists answer fundamental questions in neuroscience a... In the lab of Lauren O’Connell, associate professor of biology, researchers look to amphibian species to learn how animals evolve in response to changing env
Image Researcher profiles | Feb 21 2025 The Transmitter This paper changed my life: Bill Newsome reflects on a quadrilogy of classic vis... The 1970s papers from Goldberg and Wurtz made ambitious mechanistic studies of higher brain functions seem feasible.
Image Researcher profiles | Sep 30 2024 Stanford Report Getting to know Stanford’s first data science faculty Laura Gwilliams, a Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar, and Brian Hie are the inaugural faculty of Stanford Data Science.
Image Researcher profiles | May 10 2024 Stanford Report James Doty on the neuroscience of manifestation In his new book, James Doty turns to the latest research findings in neuroscience to explain what manifestation does to the brain and body.
Image Researcher profiles | Feb 27 2024 Scope Blog Unconventional Paths: How she flipped traditional genomics analysis on its head Julia Salzman transitioned from a statistics professor at Columbia University to a postdoctoral researcher in a biochemistry lab at Stanford to merge statistics with biology and redefine genomics analysis. She shares her unique journey to becoming a professor in data science, biochemistry, and statistics at Stanford.
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 Researcher profiles | Dec 13 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: On the frontiers of speech science Wu Tsai Neuro’s newest faculty scholar, Laura Gwilliams, discusses advances in the science of how we understand one another.
Image Researcher profiles | Oct 27 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: Linking sleep, brain insulation, and neurological disease with postdoc Dani... Working in the Gibson Lab, Brain Resilience Postdoc Scholar Daniela Rojo looks at how abnormal changes in gene activity impact the cells involved in producing myelin to the extent that it leads to neurodegeneration in the brain.
Image Researcher profiles | May 24 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Opening windows onto the human brain - a Q&A with Milena Kaestner A conversation with Milena Kaestner, PhD, the new director of Wu Tsai Neuro's Koret Human Neurosciences Community Laboratory.
Image Researcher profiles | Aug 1 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: A year in the life of the mouse lemur Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Interdisciplinary Scholar Shixuan Liu studies seasonal rhythms in the diminutive mouse lemur in the Stanford laboratories of Mark Krasnow and James Ferrell.