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We are delighted to announce and congratulate the recipients of the Wu Tsai Performance Agility Project awards. The Agility Projects are seed grants to fund early-stage projects from cross-disciplinary teams to advance the mission of the Alliance. Eight outstanding projects from Stanford University were identified by a faculty review committee as having a strong potential to advance our understanding of the biological principles underlying human performance and expand the Alliance’s current scientific program.

One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Modeling and Measuring Ergonomic and Biomechanical Factors in Peak Piano Performance
Elizabeth Schumann | Billie Bennett Achilles Director of Keyboard Studies & Assistant Professor of Music

Karen Liu | Professor of Computer Science

Matthew Wright | Executive Director, CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics)

John Wen | Graduate Student in Neurosciences

Ruocheng Wang | Graduate Student in Computer Science

Haochen Shi | Graduate Student in Computer Science

Mitochondrial DNA Replenishment Therapy for Sarcopenia
Phillip Yang | Professor of Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine

Gentaro Ikeda | Instructor of Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine

Katrin Svensson | Assistant Professor of Pathology

Philip Tsao | Professor (Research) of Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine

Colwyn Headley | Postdoctoral Scholar in Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine

Strength Snacks: Health Performance Gains Across Domains
Marily Oppezzo | Instructor, Medicine – Stanford Prevention Research Center

Michael Baiocchi | Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and, by courtesy, Statistics and Medicine

Michael Snyder | Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics

Brad Schoenfeld | Professor of Exercise Science at Lehman College

Corey Rovzar | Postdoctoral Scholar in SCRDP/Heart Disease Prevention

Enhancing Mindsets and Improving Health and Performance During Critical Stress Periods Through an Integrated Mind-Body Intervention
Alia Crum | Associate Professor of Psychology and, by courtesy, of Medicine

Carol Dweck | Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology and, by Courtesy, Professor of Education

Christiane Brems | Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Laura Roberts | Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and, by courtesy, Professor of Psychology

Jonathan Berek | Laurie Kraus Lacob Professor of Medicine

Kris Evans | Graduate Student in Psychology

Improving Lower-limb Exoskeleton Performance Through Trajectory Prediction
Monroe Kennedy | Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science

Karen Liu | Professor of Computer Science

Steven Collins | Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering

Weizhou Wang | Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

Blood Brain Barrier Dysfunction and Brain Vulnerability to Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury During Exercise
Sarah Heilshorn | Director of the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials & Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Marion Buckwalter | Professor of Neurology (adult) and of Neurosurgery

Jian Luo | Senior Research Scientist at Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research

Vanessa Doulames | Physical Scientist Research, Materials Science and Engineering

Patrik Johansson | Postdoctoral Scholar in Materials Science and Engineering

Molecular and Physiological Dynamics of Recovery to Attain Peak Performance
Todd Coleman | Associate Professor of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering

Emily Kraus | Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Michael Snyder | Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics

Morgan Smith | Postdoctoral Scholar in Genetics

Understanding and Mitigating Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS)

H. Craig Heller | Lorry I. Lokey/Business Wire Professor and Professor of Biology

Holden Maecker | Professor (Research) of Microbiology and Immunology

Brice Gaudilliere | Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (Adult-MSD) and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics (Neonatology)