Featured News Image Research news | May 14 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Alzheimer's "resilience signature" predicts who will develop dementia—and how fa... Knight Initiative researchers discover a biomarker in spinal fluid that could help forecast Alzheimer’s progression and improve clinical trials. 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Image Research news | Oct 30 2023 Stanford Chemical Engineering A key to assembling materials on the surface of live neurons When Anqi Zhang arrived at Stanford University as a postdoc, she had just spent six years learning to design and build brain implants: miniscule devices that could record the activity of neurons while causing minimal tissue damage. Image Research news | Oct 13 2023 Stanford Engineering The future of neuroscience: Karl Deisseroth sheds light on the inner workings of... Karl Deisseroth, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate and pioneering psychiatrist and engineer, discusses the technologies he’s given to the world and the way those technologies are making life better for people across the globe. Image Research news | Aug 2 2023 Stanford Engineering A New Device Records Brain Activity from Inside Blood Vessels The new tool, pioneered by Anqi Zhang, now a Stanford postdoc with Karl Deisseroth and Zhenan Bao, could make it possible to study and treat the brain without causing tissue damage. Image Researcher profiles | Jun 13 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Scott Linderman wins McKnight Scholar Award Linderman’s research group builds computational tools to extract simple structures from high-dimensional datasets, enhancing our understanding of the brain and its processes. He spoke with us about his work and the McKnight award. Image Research news | May 16 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience To study aging, researchers give killifish the CRISPR treatment A new study demonstrating CRISPR gene editing in killifish opens the doors for ambitious research on the biological drivers of aging. Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 27 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neuro & Knight Initiative announce 2023 postdoctoral scholars Interdisciplinary Postdocs and Brain Resilience Scholars will advance knowledge of brain health and aging. Image Research news | Jan 9 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The rebirth of psychedelic medicine Researchers at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute are at the forefront of a seismic shift that’s putting a spotlight on once taboo psychedelic substances as a promising new frontier in psychiatric medicine. Image Knight Initiative news | Dec 8 2022 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Bold ideas to advance healthy brain aging win inaugural Knight Initiative grants The Phil and Penny Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience is proud to announce the recipients of its inaugural 2022 Innovation and Catalyst Grants. Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jun 1 2021 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Toolmakers aim to untangle fundamental challenges in neuroscience Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute advances its ambitious “Big Ideas” Initiatives to the next level
Image Research news | May 14 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Alzheimer's "resilience signature" predicts who will develop dementia—and how fa... Knight Initiative researchers discover a biomarker in spinal fluid that could help forecast Alzheimer’s progression and improve clinical trials.
Image Research news | May 7 2025 Stanford Engineering Fixing cellular recycling centers may help treat neurodegenerative diseases Improving cells’ ability to sort and recycle components—including cholesterol—could lead to therapies for a wide range of neurodegenerative conditions, accor
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 Research news | Apr 9 2025 Stanford Medicine Re-creating neural pathway in dish may speed pain treatment Researchers with the Wu Tsai Neuro–funded Stanford Brain Organogenesis project have rebuilt, in laboratory glassware, the neural pathway that sends informati
Image Research news | Apr 29 2024 Stanford Magazine Neuropsychiatry and sandwiches Learn how a silo-busting program to probe neuropsychiatric disease was hatched over lunch with Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Paul Nuyujukian, Karl Deisseroth, Carolyn Rodriguez, and Vivek Buch.
Image Research news | Jan 22 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute ‘Kirigami’ electrodes unfold new horizons for brain organoid research Inspired by Japanese paper art, a new device can record from 3D ‘organoid’ models of the developing human brain for months without disturbing their growth or structure.
Image Research news | Dec 6 2023 Stanford Medicine Human Neural Circuitry program seeks to investigate deepest mysteries of brain f... Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Karl Deisseroth, Carolyn Rodriguez, Vivek Buch, Paul Nuyujukian, and team have created a super-charged, multidisciplinary in-patient research program and laboratory to better understand neuropsychiatric disorders.
Image Research news | Oct 30 2023 Stanford Chemical Engineering A key to assembling materials on the surface of live neurons When Anqi Zhang arrived at Stanford University as a postdoc, she had just spent six years learning to design and build brain implants: miniscule devices that could record the activity of neurons while causing minimal tissue damage.
Image Research news | Oct 13 2023 Stanford Engineering The future of neuroscience: Karl Deisseroth sheds light on the inner workings of... Karl Deisseroth, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate and pioneering psychiatrist and engineer, discusses the technologies he’s given to the world and the way those technologies are making life better for people across the globe.
Image Research news | Aug 2 2023 Stanford Engineering A New Device Records Brain Activity from Inside Blood Vessels The new tool, pioneered by Anqi Zhang, now a Stanford postdoc with Karl Deisseroth and Zhenan Bao, could make it possible to study and treat the brain without causing tissue damage.
Image Researcher profiles | Jun 13 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Scott Linderman wins McKnight Scholar Award Linderman’s research group builds computational tools to extract simple structures from high-dimensional datasets, enhancing our understanding of the brain and its processes. He spoke with us about his work and the McKnight award.
Image Research news | May 16 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience To study aging, researchers give killifish the CRISPR treatment A new study demonstrating CRISPR gene editing in killifish opens the doors for ambitious research on the biological drivers of aging.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 27 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neuro & Knight Initiative announce 2023 postdoctoral scholars Interdisciplinary Postdocs and Brain Resilience Scholars will advance knowledge of brain health and aging.
Image Research news | Jan 9 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The rebirth of psychedelic medicine Researchers at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute are at the forefront of a seismic shift that’s putting a spotlight on once taboo psychedelic substances as a promising new frontier in psychiatric medicine.
Image Knight Initiative news | Dec 8 2022 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Bold ideas to advance healthy brain aging win inaugural Knight Initiative grants The Phil and Penny Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience is proud to announce the recipients of its inaugural 2022 Innovation and Catalyst Grants.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jun 1 2021 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Toolmakers aim to untangle fundamental challenges in neuroscience Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute advances its ambitious “Big Ideas” Initiatives to the next level
