Featured News Image Knight Initiative news | May 12 2026 Stanford Report Gift advances research into brain resilience and aging A $90 million gift from Penny and Phil Knight will extend the work of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Image Research news | May 12 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience In pursuit of brain resilience In this research roundup, we look back on some of the ways Knight Initiative scientists have been pursuing ways to keep our minds sharp well into old age Image Researcher profiles | Apr 27 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Could neuroscience help explain miscarriage? Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage spike after age 35. Wu Tsai Neuro postdoc Blake Laham suspects neural signaling in the uterus is partly to blame Image Researcher profiles | Apr 2 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: ‘To see is to believe’ Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong says that light plays a key role in neuroscience and—and that’s why he’s working with a Big Ideas in Neuroscience team to make transparent brains Displaying 81 - 96 news posts of 164 Filter Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest News Type Wu Tsai Neuro News Knight Initiative news Director's messages Research news Researcher profiles News Features Awards and honors Podcast episodes Press coverage Publications Research Theme NeuroEngineering NeuroHealth NeuroDiscovery 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 Research news | Dec 12 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Brains could help solve a fundamental problem in computer engineering Stanford bioengineering professor Kwabena Boahen looks toward dendrites for a completely novel way of thinking about computer chips. 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 Researcher profiles | Sep 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: New imaging tool unravels the brain's complex machinery in health and disea... Tool-builder Sean Bendall discusses Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging (MIBI), a powerful new tissue imaging technology that might shine a light on key questions in neurodegenerative disease, including what makes some brains seemingly resilient to Alzheimer’s. Image Research news | Aug 24 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stretchy, conductive electrodes that can keep up with an octopus Clever design leads to a polymer that combines stretchiness with high electrical conductivity. 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 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 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 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 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. Pagination First page Previous page Page 4 Page 5 Current page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next page Last page
Image Knight Initiative news | May 12 2026 Stanford Report Gift advances research into brain resilience and aging A $90 million gift from Penny and Phil Knight will extend the work of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Image Research news | May 12 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience In pursuit of brain resilience In this research roundup, we look back on some of the ways Knight Initiative scientists have been pursuing ways to keep our minds sharp well into old age
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 27 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Could neuroscience help explain miscarriage? Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage spike after age 35. Wu Tsai Neuro postdoc Blake Laham suspects neural signaling in the uterus is partly to blame
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 2 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: ‘To see is to believe’ Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong says that light plays a key role in neuroscience and—and that’s why he’s working with a Big Ideas in Neuroscience team to make transparent brains
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 Research news | Dec 12 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Brains could help solve a fundamental problem in computer engineering Stanford bioengineering professor Kwabena Boahen looks toward dendrites for a completely novel way of thinking about computer chips.
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 Researcher profiles | Sep 21 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: New imaging tool unravels the brain's complex machinery in health and disea... Tool-builder Sean Bendall discusses Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging (MIBI), a powerful new tissue imaging technology that might shine a light on key questions in neurodegenerative disease, including what makes some brains seemingly resilient to Alzheimer’s.
Image Research news | Aug 24 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stretchy, conductive electrodes that can keep up with an octopus Clever design leads to a polymer that combines stretchiness with high electrical conductivity.
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 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 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 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 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.
