Knight Initiative Team

  1. Leadership

    The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience is led by faculty director Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, and associate director Natasha Hussain, PhD.

  2. Tony Wyss-Coray

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

  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.

  6. Andi Liu

    Neurosciences Researcher, Brain Resilience Laboratory

  9. Lu Zhou

    Senior Scientist, Brain Resilience Laboratory

Finance

  1. Philipe Irola

    Associate Director for Finance and Administration, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute & Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

  2. Maritza Vallejo

    Accountant, Neurosciences Community Laboratories and Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

Communications

  1. Julia Diaz

    Digital Community and Social Media Strategist, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute & Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

  2. Nicholas Weiler

    Associate Director for Communications, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute & Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

Administration

  1. Debra Allison

    Administrative Associate II, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

  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

    Iqbal Farrukh and Asad Jamal Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences

  7. Emma Lundberg

    Associate Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and of Pathology

  8. Kathleen Poston

    Edward F. and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences

  9. Kang Shen

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

  10. Tony Wyss-Coray

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

Additional Advisors and Alumni

  1. Karl Deisseroth

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

  3. William Newsome

    Harman Family Provostial Professor, Department of Neurobiology
    Founding Director, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute