Browse wide-ranging research at the frontiers of neuroscience supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute grants, awards, and training fellowships.
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Seed Grant
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2025
3D optical reconstruction of whole-brain neuropeptidergic connectome in Caenorhabditis elegans
Funded Researcher(s):
Rongxin Fang
,
Kang Shen
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
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2025
CLN5-supplemented hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for treatment of lysosomal storage diseases
Funded Researcher(s):
Nick Manfred
Faculty Sponsor(s):
Monther Abu-Remaileh
,
Marius Wernig
Seed Grant
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2025
Elucidating Neurobiological and Exposomic Mechanisms of Human Brain Circuit Resilience to Aging and Tauopathies: An AI-driven modeling approach
Funded Researcher(s):
Vinod Menon
,
Elizabeth Mormino
Seed Grant
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2025
Harnessing circadian rhythmicity at the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier with a perfusable biomimetic hydrogel-integrated chip
Funded Researcher(s):
Ryann Fame, PhD
,
Sarah Heilshorn
Seed Grant
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2025
Impaired RNA Editing as A Cause of Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease
Funded Researcher(s):
Jin Billy Li
,
Marius Wernig
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
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2025
Revealing brain-body communication by holistic GPCR ligand imaging
Funded Researcher(s):
Pengli Wang
Faculty Sponsor(s):
Michael Lin
,
Vivianne Tawfik
Seed Grant
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2025
Rewiring neuropeptide signaling to therapeutic outcomes with GLumigenetics
Funded Researcher(s):
Michael Lin
,
Xiaoke Chen
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
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2025
Signal processing methods to interrogate multiple biomarkers of traumatic brain injury in one mPET imaging session
Funded Researcher(s):
Sarah Zou
Faculty Sponsor(s):
Craig Levin
,
Mykel Kochenderfer
Seed Grant
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2023
Dissecting mechanisms of gut-brain communication in Parkinson’s Disease
Funded Researcher(s):
Ami Bhatt
,
Kathleen Poston, MD, MS
Seed Grant
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2023
Life-long, minimally invasive, and multiplex transcriptional profiling of the cerebellum
Funded Researcher(s):
Xiaojing Gao
,
Longzhi Tan
Seed Grant
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2023
Novel ketone-derived anticonvulsant agents for the treatment of childhood refractory epilepsy
Funded Researcher(s):
Juliet Klasing Knowles
,
Jonathan Z. Long