Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

Disabling the notorious APOE4 gene might protect against the disease, according to research from Michael Greicius and team.

How to know if your organs are ‘older’ than you are, and ways to slow down biological aging according to Knight Initiative director Tony Wyss-Coray and others.

Knight Initiative director Tony Wyss-Coray and others are leading the development of a test measuring organ-specific proteins in the blood as a simple and sensible way to estimate biological age.

Are you interested in working with single-cell or spatial transcriptomic experiments?

The Brain Resilience Lab is hosting a two-day event featuring the Xenium platform with the 10X Genomics team. Registration is required for this in-person event. 

The first Monday of each month, the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience will host monthly seminars to bring together awardees, affiliated professors and students for a series of 'lab meeting' styled talks. Two speakers will discuss their brain resilience research, experiences in the field, and answer questions about their work.

Shuke Xiao, Stanford University

Regulation of an exercise-inducible appetite suppressant

Stanford Hospital brings together two autopsy rooms, the morgue, including bereavement and viewing rooms, as well as decedent care team offices. The new space allows for more advanced research for the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience and others.

On Thursday, May 23, the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience is hosting a half-day symposium showcasing the achievements of our award recipients.