Featured News Image Director's messages | Jan 13 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Director's Message, Winter 2025 Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen welcomes the Wu Tsai Neuro community to 2025, reflects on our recent milestones, and shares some exciting developments on the horizon. Image Research news | Dec 19 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Blight or Benefit: How Cellular Neighbors Shape the Aging Brain Researchers at Stanford’s Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience merge spatial transcriptomics and AI to uncover how local cellular interactions drive brain aging and resilience Image News Features | Dec 16 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The co-evolution of neuroscience and AI Academic leaders debated the future of the intersecting study of natural and artificial intelligence at Wu Tsai Neuro’s Annual Symposium Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Dec 13 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute 2024 Neuroscience Research in Review Join us as we look back on some of the key studies we covered here at Wu Tsai Neuro in 2024 to give a (very partial) overview of the impact of our community’s research efforts this past year News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroDiscovery NeuroEngineering NeuroHealth News TypeKnight Initiative news Research news Wu Tsai Neuro News Researcher profiles Awards and honors Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Research news | Oct 2 2024 Stanford Medicine Study hints at ways to generate new neurons in old brains Supported by the Big Ideas in Neuroscience program, research from the Brunet lab suggests the possibility of designing pharmaceutical or genetic therapies to turn on new neuron production in old or injured brains. Image Knight Initiative news | Sep 18 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Advancing Brain Resilience: 2024 Catalyst and Pilot Grant Awards The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience supports 14 high-risk, high-reward projects to advance brain health and resilience research, fostering bold research across various scientific disciplines. Image Knight Initiative news | Jul 10 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Knight symposium highlights advances in brain resilience research The Knight Initiative's Year-End Symposium and Research Showcase featured a wide range of promising new approaches to understanding brain aging, resilience, and neurodegeneration. Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 22 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neuro and Knight Initiative announce 2024 postdoctoral scholars We are proud to welcome the 2024 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars — ten young scientists pursuing novel, multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding the workings of the brain. 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 | Dec 19 2022 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience A fish’s life: How the short-lived Killifish could reveal principles of human ag... New insights into the drivers of aging are emerging from research using an automated system for care and monitoring of hundreds of short-lived fish developed in the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute’s Sandbox Laboratory. 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 Director's messages | Jan 13 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Director's Message, Winter 2025 Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen welcomes the Wu Tsai Neuro community to 2025, reflects on our recent milestones, and shares some exciting developments on the horizon.
Image Research news | Dec 19 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Blight or Benefit: How Cellular Neighbors Shape the Aging Brain Researchers at Stanford’s Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience merge spatial transcriptomics and AI to uncover how local cellular interactions drive brain aging and resilience
Image News Features | Dec 16 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The co-evolution of neuroscience and AI Academic leaders debated the future of the intersecting study of natural and artificial intelligence at Wu Tsai Neuro’s Annual Symposium
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Dec 13 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute 2024 Neuroscience Research in Review Join us as we look back on some of the key studies we covered here at Wu Tsai Neuro in 2024 to give a (very partial) overview of the impact of our community’s research efforts this past year
Image Research news | Oct 2 2024 Stanford Medicine Study hints at ways to generate new neurons in old brains Supported by the Big Ideas in Neuroscience program, research from the Brunet lab suggests the possibility of designing pharmaceutical or genetic therapies to turn on new neuron production in old or injured brains.
Image Knight Initiative news | Sep 18 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Advancing Brain Resilience: 2024 Catalyst and Pilot Grant Awards The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience supports 14 high-risk, high-reward projects to advance brain health and resilience research, fostering bold research across various scientific disciplines.
Image Knight Initiative news | Jul 10 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Knight symposium highlights advances in brain resilience research The Knight Initiative's Year-End Symposium and Research Showcase featured a wide range of promising new approaches to understanding brain aging, resilience, and neurodegeneration.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 22 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neuro and Knight Initiative announce 2024 postdoctoral scholars We are proud to welcome the 2024 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars — ten young scientists pursuing novel, multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding the workings of the brain.
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 | Dec 19 2022 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience A fish’s life: How the short-lived Killifish could reveal principles of human ag... New insights into the drivers of aging are emerging from research using an automated system for care and monitoring of hundreds of short-lived fish developed in the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute’s Sandbox Laboratory.
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.
