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Through bold and innovative approaches, we’re decoding how brains stay healthy as we age and driving a future free from dementia.

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Knight Initiative Fall 2025 Symposium
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Under the Lights: What Surgery Reveals About Brain Resilience
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Leveraging advanced tools in sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, and proteomics, we’re building a global library of brain aging datasets, empowering researchers to drive their own studies and advance collective knowledge on brain resilience.
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Offering access to advanced omics technologies, including sequencing, spatial, and proteomics, alongside a growing brain tissue repository.

Upcoming Events
Join us to learn about exciting developments in brain resilience research.

Knight Initiative Events / Seminar Brain Resilience Seminar: Jacob Simon and Joe Winer

Sep 8 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Knight Initiative Events / Seminar Brain Resilience Seminar: Kristy Zera and Carla Shatz

Oct 6 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Fortune A scientific breakthrough researchers call ‘magic’ could transform treatment for a leading cause of death

With support from a Wu Tsai Neuro grant, researchers have developed a potentially game-changing stroke treatment.
Jul 9 2025
Newsday Brain health: It's 'biological age' might be able to predict your life span

A new Stanford study used blood proteins to analyze the 'biological' age of brains and other organs compared to the person's actual age.
Jul 9 2025

Brain aging

Discovery science

Molecules and cells
The Mercury News Stanford researchers develop new tool to measure biological age

The tool, built by a team led by Stanford's Tony Wyss-Coray, uses a single vial of blood to assess the 'biological age' of each organ.
Jul 9 2025

Brain aging

Discovery science

Molecules and cells

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