Browse wide-ranging research at the frontiers of neuroscience supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute grants, awards, and training fellowships.
Projects
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2025
3D optical reconstruction of whole-brain neuropeptidergic connectome in Caenorhabditis elegans
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2025
Elucidating Neurobiological and Exposomic Mechanisms of Human Brain Circuit Resilience to Aging and Tauopathies: An AI-driven modeling approach
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2025
Harnessing circadian rhythmicity at the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier with a perfusable biomimetic hydrogel-integrated chip
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2025
Impaired RNA Editing as A Cause of Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2025
Rewiring neuropeptide signaling to therapeutic outcomes with GLumigenetics
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2023
Dissecting mechanisms of gut-brain communication in Parkinson’s Disease
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2023
Life-long, minimally invasive, and multiplex transcriptional profiling of the cerebellum
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2023
Novel ketone-derived anticonvulsant agents for the treatment of childhood refractory epilepsy
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2023
Structural and mechanistic analysis of the protein-protein interface between ABCA1 and ApoE as a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s Disease
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2023
Use of gut-brain electrophysiology to study interoception in eating disorders
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2021
Elucidating the biophysical mechanisms of latrophilin activation in excitatory synapse formation
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2021
Inflammation, Major Histocompatibility Class I and human brain development
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2021
Magnetic Recording and Stimulation of Neural Tissue
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2021
Mapping the Mitophagy Network in Parkinson’s Disease
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2021
Rapid brain-wide optogenetic screening with a noninvasive, dynamically programmable in vivo light source
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2019
Genetic tools to determine circuit-specific roles of myelination
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2019
Injectable photovoltaics for a wireless, gliosis-free neural stimulation interface
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2019
Investigating the role of a human-specific repeat element in neuropsychiatric disease risk and cerebellar function
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2019
Quantifying auditory-vocal affect in human social communication
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2019
Sensory processing in a pre-seizure state
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2019
Ultrasonic neural control and neuroimaging in the awake, mobile, and behaving small rodent
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
EPFL-Stanford Exchange
2018
Answering research questions in neural control through crowdsourced challenges
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
EPFL-Stanford Exchange
2018
Novel haptic interfaces for studying human perception in virtual environments
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2017