Featured News Image Researcher profiles | Mar 9 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: Probing electrical signals to understand Alzheimer’s disease Brain Resilience Postdoctoral Scholar Annie Goettemoeller is studying how epilepsy-like activity might drive the spread of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain Image Research news | Feb 23 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Engineered immune therapy could help fight brain aging Neuroscientists studying inflammation and age-related brain decline engineered a protein that spurs the growth of new neurons in aging mice Image Research news | Feb 19 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Why the brain misunderstands speech after stroke In stroke patients with aphasia, the brain spends too little time processing ambiguous sounds, researchers find, suggesting new targets for precision therapies Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Feb 18 2026 Stanford Report Three Wu Tsai Neuro scientists are named Sloan Research Fellows Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong and institute affiliates Christoph Thaiss and Steven Banik were among eight Stanford researchers to receive the honor News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroHealth NeuroEngineering NeuroDiscovery News TypeResearch news Knight Initiative news Wu Tsai Neuro News Researcher profiles Awards and honors Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest 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. 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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. 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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 Researcher profiles | Mar 9 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: Probing electrical signals to understand Alzheimer’s disease Brain Resilience Postdoctoral Scholar Annie Goettemoeller is studying how epilepsy-like activity might drive the spread of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain
Image Research news | Feb 23 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Engineered immune therapy could help fight brain aging Neuroscientists studying inflammation and age-related brain decline engineered a protein that spurs the growth of new neurons in aging mice
Image Research news | Feb 19 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Why the brain misunderstands speech after stroke In stroke patients with aphasia, the brain spends too little time processing ambiguous sounds, researchers find, suggesting new targets for precision therapies
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Feb 18 2026 Stanford Report Three Wu Tsai Neuro scientists are named Sloan Research Fellows Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong and institute affiliates Christoph Thaiss and Steven Banik were among eight Stanford researchers to receive the honor
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
