Browse wide-ranging research at the frontiers of neuroscience supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute grants, awards, and training fellowships.
Projects
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
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
Programmatic Activation of the Neurodegenerative TREM2 Pathway by TCIP1
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
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)
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2023
Neuron-glia interactions in regulating protein aggregation in human cell models.
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2023
Rejuvenating sleep to enhance brain resilience with age
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2023
The origin of neurodegeneration: insight from a unique colonial chordate
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
EPFL-Stanford Exchange
2017
Biologically plausible neural algorithms for learning structured sequences
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
EPFL-Stanford Exchange
2017
High-speed force probes for deconstructing the biophysics of mechanotransduction
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
EPFL-Stanford Exchange
2017
High-speed nanomechanical probing of auditory mechano-sensitive cells
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
EPFL-Stanford Exchange
2017
Improve reproducibility and transparency in the field of neuroimaging by applying nonparametricstatistical methods and writing R packages.
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
EPFL-Stanford Exchange
2017
Quantitative imaging for multi-scale modeling of neurological diseases
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
EPFL-Stanford Exchange
Controlling schistosomiasis via CRISPR/CAS9-mediated gene drive
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
EPFL-Stanford Exchange