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
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2025
CLN5-supplemented hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for treatment of lysosomal storage diseases
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2025
Revealing brain-body communication by holistic GPCR ligand imaging
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2025
Signal processing methods to interrogate multiple biomarkers of traumatic brain injury in one mPET imaging session
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
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2024
Engineering objective physiologic measures to characterize nonmotor aspects of Parkinson’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
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2024
Uncovering behavior-dependent entorhinal maps with state space models
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2024
Uncovering the neurochemical basis of colonic water absorption
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2024
Uncovering the roles of representational drift in the brain through the lens of dynamical systems and their practical implications in brain-computer interfaces
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
Investigating severe traumatic brain injury using a novel human CSF cell-free mRNA gene panel
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2022
Leveraging screenomics to identify mental illness: Detecting bipolar disorder through computational analysis of smartphone screen data
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2022
Mechanistic insights into glycerophospholipid metabolism in the lysosome
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2022