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Funded Research Projects

astrocytes, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
NeuroDiscovery | SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): Kevin Guttenplan
Many neurological diseases feature the death of neurons, but the mechanisms that mediate cell death in these disorders are unknown. Astrogliosis, the response of a cell-type called “astrocytes” to injury, is common to most diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), and recent studies in our lab...
Brown Fat, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
NeuroDiscovery | Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): Andrew Whittle
Everyone is well aware of their white adipose tissue and its ability to store excess energy as fat. In fact the efficiency with which it does this has led to obesity and related metabolic diseases becoming the largest single health burden in the United States. Yet buried behind our collar-bones and...
Nerve Growth, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
NeuroDiscovery | Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): Whitney Heavner
This research seeks to understand how our genes encode the instructions for neurons in the neocortex to properly arise during normal brain development. This knowledge will allow scientists to understand how genetic mutations perturb development leading to human disease.
NeuroCircuit Big Idea, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
NeuroDiscovery | Big Idea
Lead Researcher(s): Amit Etkin, MD, PhD, Stephen A. Baccus
Combining a detailed understanding of brain circuits with technology that modulates neural activity to develop improved ways of treating mental health conditions.
NeuroChoice Big Idea, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
NeuroDiscovery | Big Idea
Lead Researcher(s): Brian Knutson, Keith Humphreys, Robert Malenka
Optimizing choice: From neuroscience to public policy
NeuroVision Big Idea, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
NeuroDiscovery | Big Idea
Lead Researcher(s): Steven Chu, Liqun Luo, Thomas Sudhof
The goal is to forge an inter-disciplinary collaboration between physicists, biologists, chemists, and translational medical scientists by inventing new ways of visualizing the brain, from individual molecules to neuronal circuits to entire brain regions, from a normally functioning neuron to a...
Magnetic Field, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
NeuroDiscovery | Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): Kevin Mann
For decades we have known that a wide variety of animals use the earth’s magnetic field for navigation, although the means by which they sense it has remained a mystery. There is a long-standing idea that animals like migratory birds use small magnetic deposits in their beaks to act as a compass,...
dopamine neuron, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
NeuroDiscovery | Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): Rupa Lalchandani
Due to the critical role that dopamine producing neurons play in pathophysiology, it is important to examine the function of its co-released GABA. This research aims to study GABA biosynthesis in midbrain dopamine producing neurons and it’s effect on striatal inhibition.
Spatial Reasoning in Mathematics, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
NeuroDiscovery | Seed Grant
Lead Researcher(s): Jay McClelland, Bruce McCandliss, Anthony Norcia
We aim to understand how brain mechanisms of spatial reasoning are brought into play during symbolic mathematical cognition and to identify individual differences in these mechanisms that co-vary with mathematical ability and mathematical experience.
Autism, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
NeuroDiscovery | Seed Grant
Lead Researcher(s): Karen J. Parker, PhD, Alexander Eckehart Urban, Megan Albertelli, Joachim Hallmayer
Autism is a highly genetic developmental brain disorder which is characterized by social impairments. Autism affects 1 in 68 US children, with an annual cost in the US of $250 billion dollars. Unfortunately, the basic biology of autism remains poorly understood. Consequently, there are currently no...

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