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
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
Seed Grant
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2025
Rewiring neuropeptide signaling to therapeutic outcomes with GLumigenetics
Funded Researcher(s):
Michael Lin
,
Xiaoke Chen
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
Seed Grant
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2023
Structural and mechanistic analysis of the protein-protein interface between ABCA1 and ApoE as a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s Disease
Funded Researcher(s):
Chaitan Khosla
,
Michael Greicius, MD, MPH
Seed Grant
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2023
Use of gut-brain electrophysiology to study interoception in eating disorders
Funded Researcher(s):
Todd Coleman
,
James Lock
Seed Grant
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2021
Elucidating the biophysical mechanisms of latrophilin activation in excitatory synapse formation
Funded Researcher(s):
Alexander Dunn
,
Thomas Sudhof
Seed Grant
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2021
Inflammation, Major Histocompatibility Class I and human brain development
Funded Researcher(s):
Carla Shatz
,
Anca M. Pasca, MD