Announcement Kriegsfeld, Dan, and Kaufer win 2020 Radical Ideas in Brain Science Challenge Congratulations to the HWNI team who won our Radical Ideas in Brain Science Challenge!barbaraNovember 12, 2020
News Polina Lishko receives MacArthur “genius” award Congratulations to HWNI collaborator Polina Lishko for being named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow!barbaraOctober 14, 2020
Announcement Gomez awarded Young Investigator Grant HWNI member Andrea Gomez was awarded a Young Investigator Grant from The Brain & Behavior…barbaraOctober 7, 2020
Announcement UC Berkeley researchers awarded Pew Innovation Funding HWNI member Ke Xu is part of a collaboration to study steroid hormones in Alzheimer’s…barbaraSeptember 15, 2020
Research Discovery How we sleep today may forecast when Alzheimer’s disease begins The Walker and Jagust labs found that sleep quality can predict accumulation of beta-amyloid.barbaraSeptember 3, 2020
Profile Can We Cure Dementia? In this profile of Professor Daniela Kaufer, read about how she restored youthful functioning in…barbaraJuly 7, 2020
Research Discovery Brain cells protect muscles from wasting away While many of us worry about proteins aggregating in our brains as we age and…barbaraFebruary 21, 2020
Research Discovery Drugs that quell brain inflammation reverse dementia Drugs that tamp down inflammation in the brain could slow or even reverse the cognitive…barbaraDecember 4, 2019
Event Summit to tackle tricky problems of aging and dementia Human life expectancy has more than doubled over the last century, and this sudden leap…Cari IrwinSeptember 13, 2019