Knight Initiative Team

  1. Leadership

    The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience is led by faculty director Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, and director of scientific portfolio Albina Ibrayeva, PhD.

  1. Albina Ibrayeva

    Director of Scientific Portfolio, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

  2. Tony Wyss-Coray

    Director, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
    D. H. Chen Professor II, Department of Neurology

  1. Brain Resilience Laboratory

    The Brain Resilience Lab is the main research hub of the Knight Initiative, hosting the latest transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics technologies to create detailed molecular maps of the human brain.

  1. Kelly Chau

    Life Science Research Professional II, Brain Resilience Laboratory

  5. Andi Liu

    Neurosciences Researcher, Brain Resilience Laboratory

  8. Lu Zhou

    Senior Scientist, Brain Resilience Laboratory

Finance

  2. Maritza Vallejo

    Accountant, Neurosciences Community Laboratories and Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

Communications

  1. Nathan Collins

    Science Writer and Communications Strategist, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

  2. Julia Diaz

    Digital Community and Social Media Strategist, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Program Administration

  1. Knight Initiative Steering Committee

    The Steering Committee helps unite Stanford’s scientific community across disciplines in catalyzing discoveries in brain resilience and neurodegeneration.

  4. Michael Greicius, MD, MPH

    Iqbal Farrukh and Asad Jamal Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Administrative and Academic Special Programs)

  5. Albina Ibrayeva

    Director of Scientific Portfolio, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

  8. Kathleen Poston, MD, MS

    Edward F. and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor of Neurology and the Neurological Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery

  9. Kang Shen

    Vincent V.C. Woo Director, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Frank Lee and Carol Hall Professor and Professor of Biology and of Pathology

  10. Tony Wyss-Coray

    Director, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
    D. H. Chen Professor II, Department of Neurology

Alumni Academy and Advisors

  1. Karl Deisseroth

    D. H. Chen Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

  2. William Newsome

    Harman Family Provostial Professor and Professor of Neurobiology and, by courtesy, of Psychology

  4. Thomas Sudhof

    Avram Goldstein Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences