Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

Why do our brains get worse at learning as we get older, and what can we do about it? Institute affiliate Carla Shatz discusses our brain's capacity for change on this podcast episode.

Join us for the inaugural ‘Knight/Glenn Aging & Resilience Seminar Series’ featuring Dr. Ursula Jakob, from the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Jakob will discuss "Early life ROS as modulators of lifespan and age-associated diseases”, hosted by Knight Initiative Awardee, Dr. Judith Frydman. 

This collaborative seminar, a joint effort of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience and the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research, marks the beginning of our 2024-2025 Seminar Series, comprising four engaging events.

Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Fall Symposium

The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford invites the community to a symposium highlighting recent progress in Huntington’s Disease research. In addition to talks, the event will include a clinical presentation and a poster session featuring recent findings by researchers supported by the Knight Initiative awards, fellowships, and Stanford affiliates of all career stages.

Join us for the science and celebratory social after the symposium!

Symposium: Progress in Huntington's Disease

Q&A with Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Kathleen Poston about her work past and present on Parkinson’s disease. Poston studies the pathophysiology underlying the cognitive, behavioral and motor symptoms characteristic of Parkinson’s.

A few closely related drugs, all squarely aimed at treating Alzheimer’s disease, have served up what can be charitably described as a lackadaisical performance. Wu Tsai Neuro and Knight Initiative affiliate Mike Greicius explains why.

Seven Stanford faculty, including Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray, are among the 502 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

A dedicated philanthropist and Stanford GSB alum, Knight has provided game-changing support for schools and initiatives across campus.

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.

To support our researchers' participation in this open science ‘lab-meeting style’ exchange of ideas, these seminars are not streamed/recorded and are only open to members of the Stanford community. 

Pro-inflammatory protein TREM1 in peripheral immune cells may promote age-related cognitive decline and dementia, according to Knight Initiative–funded research.

Recent research supported by the Knight Initiative has identified a link between lipid droplets in the microglia to a known genetic risk factor for AD.