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
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
AI to model and boost brain repair and resilience during aging
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
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
Harnessing ketone metabolites for brain health and brain resilience
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
Identifying mechanisms of dopaminergic neuron resilience and their roles in Parkinson’s disease
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
Identifying the intrinsic biological factors of APOE risk and resilience across relevant iPSC-derived brain cell types
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
Myelin: an untapped target for preventing or reversing brain aging
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
The role of microglia in brain resilience to pathological protein aggregates
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
Toward rescuing diverse forms of proteinopathies by induction of autophagic flux
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
Unconventional IRE1 activation for promoting brain resilience
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
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2022
Characterizing the Genetic Architecture of Neuropathology with Machine Learning
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2022
Defining the Subcellular Biology of Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2022
Endocannabinoid metabolism as a driver of brain aging
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2022