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
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
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
Evaluating the immunomodulatory role of circular RNAs in microglia
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Awards
2024
Harnessing ketone metabolites for brain health and brain resilience
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
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
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
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
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
Catalyst Awards
2024
Unconventional IRE1 activation for promoting brain resilience
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