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
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
Dynamic acetylcholine regulation in flexible learning and restorative interventions in Parkinson’s disease
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
Early Entorhinal-Hippocampal Vulnerability and Recovery in Alzheimer's Disease
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
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
Seed Grant
2025
Rewiring neuropeptide signaling to therapeutic outcomes with GLumigenetics
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
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
Evaluating the immunomodulatory role of circular RNAs in microglia
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
High-resolution profiling of Alzheimer’s brain resilience
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
Neural mechanisms of episodic memory resilience in longitudinal aging brains
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
Sleep and neuronal energy management in neurodegeneration
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
TREM1 in peripheral myeloid cells exacerbates cognitive decline in aging and Alzheimer's disease
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2023
Determining the role of circadian transcriptional control in myelin-forming precursors in neurodegeneration
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2023
Dissecting mechanisms of gut-brain communication in Parkinson’s Disease
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2023
Elucidating the role of alternative polyadenylation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2023
Life-long, minimally invasive, and multiplex transcriptional profiling of the cerebellum
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2023
Neuron-glia interactions in regulating protein aggregation in human cell models.
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2023
Novel ketone-derived anticonvulsant agents for the treatment of childhood refractory epilepsy
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2023
Rejuvenating sleep to enhance brain resilience with age
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
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2023