Browse wide-ranging research at the frontiers of neuroscience supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute grants, awards, and training fellowships.
Projects
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
Programmatic Activation of the Neurodegenerative TREM2 Pathway by TCIP1
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2025
Revealing brain-body communication by holistic GPCR ligand imaging
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2025
Rewiring neuropeptide signaling to therapeutic outcomes with GLumigenetics
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2025
Signal processing methods to interrogate multiple biomarkers of traumatic brain injury in one mPET imaging session
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2025
Spatial and Behavioral Characterization of Alpha Suppression and Broadband EEG Activity in Visual Attention
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
The role of mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 in glaucoma pathophysiology
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
The role of the frontotemporal dementia gene product Progranulin in the homeostasis of the neurodegeneration- associated lipid Bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Big Ideas in Neuroscience Award
2025
The Stanford Neuro-Pregnancy Initiative
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2025
Thermosensory Control of Multimodal Behavioral Adaptation and Optimization
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Momentum Awards
2025
Understand the regulatory dynamics of “resilience networks” during development, healthy aging and disease models (renewed)
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Synthetic Neuroscience Grants
2024
A synthetic ultrasound neural interface for non-invasive and spatiotemporally precise chemogenetic and pharmacological neuromodulation
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
AI to model and boost brain repair and resilience during aging
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neuroscience:Translate Award
2024
Assessing the feasibility of an autologous cell/gel therapy for spinal cord injury
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024
Assessing whether inhibitory rTMS improves brain pathology and language function in Self-limited Epilepsy with Centro-temporal Spikes (SeLECTS)
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neuroimaging Pilot Grant
2024
Assessment of MAP4K4 in regulating tumor cell invasion in a preclinical model of pediatric high-grade glioma
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024
Biomarkers of awareness and response to treatment in obsessive-compulsive disorder (BARTOC): Implementing EEG-based biomarkers of cognitive control in a pilot study of nitrous oxide inhalation vs placebo in OCD
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neuroimaging Pilot Grant
2024
Brain response to influenza virus infection in the lung
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neuroscience:Translate Award
2024
Clinical translation of a new PET radiotracer for mapping innate immune activation in multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
Clinically translating ultrasonic CSF clearing to enhance brain resilience
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
Convergence of signals for pruning at a synaptic receptor implicated in Alzheimer's disease
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neuroscience:Translate Award
2024
Creating a pharmacologic stroke recovery therapy
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neuroimaging Pilot Grant
2024
Decoding stem cell-induced recovery in time and space: a longitudinal DTI and MRS study to assess microstructural and metabolic changes following stem cell transplantation in stroke-injured rat brains
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Synthetic Neuroscience Grants
2024
Defining the temporal and spatial CSF secretome by TurboID labeling
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024