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 NeuroHealth NeuroDiscovery News TypeResearch news Press coverage Wu Tsai Neuro News Podcast episodes Researcher profiles Awards and honors Knight Initiative news News Features Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Press coverage | May 28 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute This device may nudge your brain into deep sleep By stretching the length of deep sleep, Tucker’s device aims to boost that overnight wash cycle. Someday soon, he hopes, something like it will be widely used by people to clear their heads — literally. Image Research news | May 25 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stretchable probe measures brain chemicals central to Parkinson’s, depression, a... A new string-like implant can monitor fluctuations in brain chemicals, like a fitness tracker for the brain. Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Apr 29 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Announcing the winners of the inaugural Andrew Olson Scientific Image Awards Ten images have been selected as winners of the inaugural Andrew Olson Scientific Image Awards, presented by the Neuroscience Microscopy Service (NMS) and sponsored by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Carl Zeiss. Image Press coverage | Mar 24 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neural network finds markers of autism, gender in brain scans A deep-learning method can detect autism’s “fingerprints” on a brain scan and predict a person’s social-communication difficulties, according to a new study by Kaustubh Supkekar and colleagues. Image Researcher profiles | Mar 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: The tip of the iceberg - Building the next generation of neural prosthetics Former Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary postdoctoral scholar Sergey Stavisky discusses his passion for developing brain computer interfaces to restore speech and movement to people with paralysis. Image Research news | Mar 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Researchers control brain circuits from a distance using infrared light Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Guosong Hong and colleagues have developed the first non-invasive technique for controlling targeted brain circuits in behaving animals from a distance. The tool gives neuroscientists the ability to flexibly test the function Image Press coverage | Mar 8 2022 WIRED The science behind Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain chip, plans to test this year on human subjects. Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Paul Nuyujukian discusses what this means for brain implant science? Image Press coverage | Feb 23 2022 CNBC The Stanford PhD student with a mission to graduate 10,000 Black engineers by 20... MBCT NeuroTech trainee Favour Nerrisse is the Chair of the National Society of Black Engineers. 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 | Jan 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute James Zou: Trust is AI’s most critical contribution to health care AI can reveal remarkable medical insights, but only if patients and doctors have faith in it. Thus, trust has become AI’s singular goal, says this Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate. Image Researcher profiles | Jan 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Reverse engineering the human brain by growing neural circuits in the lab Neuroscientists face a paradox. The field aims to understand the mysteries of the human mind, but studying the actual human brain cells and circuits that produce our mental lives—and how they go awry in neuropsychiatric disease—is incredibly challenging. Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 14 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Announcing 2022 Wu Tsai Neuro Interdisciplinary Scholars The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is proud to welcome its eighth cohort of interdisciplinary postdoctoral scholars, comprising six young scientists with backgrounds in computer science, psychology, education, engineering and pharmacology. Image Research news | Dec 1 2021 Stanford News Stanford engineers create perching bird-like robot Stanford University engineers Mark Cutkosky, a Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute faculty affiliate, and David Lentink – now at University of Groningen in the Netherlands – have developed a perching robot that can fly around, catch and carry objects and perc Image Research news | Nov 29 2021 Scope Blog How to solve the brain’s trickiest mysteries? Collaborate. At its core, the Wu Tsai Neurosciences institute strives to harness the full collective intellectual power of Stanford to solve some of the most challenging questions in science: the nature of the three pounds of tissue that produces our experiences, memo Image Research news | Nov 15 2021 Stanford Engineering AI experts establish the “North Star” for the domestic robotics field A Stanford AI team creates benchmarks for 100 everyday household tasks for robot assistants, creating a path for more useful agents. 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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 Press coverage | May 28 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute This device may nudge your brain into deep sleep By stretching the length of deep sleep, Tucker’s device aims to boost that overnight wash cycle. Someday soon, he hopes, something like it will be widely used by people to clear their heads — literally.
Image Research news | May 25 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stretchable probe measures brain chemicals central to Parkinson’s, depression, a... A new string-like implant can monitor fluctuations in brain chemicals, like a fitness tracker for the brain.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Apr 29 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Announcing the winners of the inaugural Andrew Olson Scientific Image Awards Ten images have been selected as winners of the inaugural Andrew Olson Scientific Image Awards, presented by the Neuroscience Microscopy Service (NMS) and sponsored by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Carl Zeiss.
Image Press coverage | Mar 24 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neural network finds markers of autism, gender in brain scans A deep-learning method can detect autism’s “fingerprints” on a brain scan and predict a person’s social-communication difficulties, according to a new study by Kaustubh Supkekar and colleagues.
Image Researcher profiles | Mar 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: The tip of the iceberg - Building the next generation of neural prosthetics Former Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary postdoctoral scholar Sergey Stavisky discusses his passion for developing brain computer interfaces to restore speech and movement to people with paralysis.
Image Research news | Mar 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Researchers control brain circuits from a distance using infrared light Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Guosong Hong and colleagues have developed the first non-invasive technique for controlling targeted brain circuits in behaving animals from a distance. The tool gives neuroscientists the ability to flexibly test the function
Image Press coverage | Mar 8 2022 WIRED The science behind Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain chip, plans to test this year on human subjects. Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Paul Nuyujukian discusses what this means for brain implant science?
Image Press coverage | Feb 23 2022 CNBC The Stanford PhD student with a mission to graduate 10,000 Black engineers by 20... MBCT NeuroTech trainee Favour Nerrisse is the Chair of the National Society of Black Engineers.
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 | Jan 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute James Zou: Trust is AI’s most critical contribution to health care AI can reveal remarkable medical insights, but only if patients and doctors have faith in it. Thus, trust has become AI’s singular goal, says this Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate.
Image Researcher profiles | Jan 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Reverse engineering the human brain by growing neural circuits in the lab Neuroscientists face a paradox. The field aims to understand the mysteries of the human mind, but studying the actual human brain cells and circuits that produce our mental lives—and how they go awry in neuropsychiatric disease—is incredibly challenging.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 14 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Announcing 2022 Wu Tsai Neuro Interdisciplinary Scholars The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is proud to welcome its eighth cohort of interdisciplinary postdoctoral scholars, comprising six young scientists with backgrounds in computer science, psychology, education, engineering and pharmacology.
Image Research news | Dec 1 2021 Stanford News Stanford engineers create perching bird-like robot Stanford University engineers Mark Cutkosky, a Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute faculty affiliate, and David Lentink – now at University of Groningen in the Netherlands – have developed a perching robot that can fly around, catch and carry objects and perc
Image Research news | Nov 29 2021 Scope Blog How to solve the brain’s trickiest mysteries? Collaborate. At its core, the Wu Tsai Neurosciences institute strives to harness the full collective intellectual power of Stanford to solve some of the most challenging questions in science: the nature of the three pounds of tissue that produces our experiences, memo
Image Research news | Nov 15 2021 Stanford Engineering AI experts establish the “North Star” for the domestic robotics field A Stanford AI team creates benchmarks for 100 everyday household tasks for robot assistants, creating a path for more useful agents.