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
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Synthetic Neuroscience Grants
2024
A synthetic ultrasound neural interface for non-invasive and spatiotemporally precise chemogenetic and pharmacological neuromodulation
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Synthetic Neuroscience Grants
2024
Defining the temporal and spatial CSF secretome by TurboID labeling
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
Evaluating the immunomodulatory role of circular RNAs in microglia
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Synthetic Neuroscience Grants
2024
First-in-class RNA sensors for studying myelin dynamics and disease
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Synthetic Neuroscience Grants
2024
Genetically-encoded voltage integrators for stable tagging of activated or inhibited neural ensembles in vivo
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
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Synthetic Neuroscience Grants
2024
Traceless Fluorescent Labeling of Endogenous 5-HT2A Receptors
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