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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. Six 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.

The Impact of Virtual Reality on Psychophysiological Mechanisms of Fatigue during Endurance Exercise

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

Jeremy Bailenson | Thomas More Storke Professor of Communication and Director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab

Laura Carstensen | Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, Professor of Psychology, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy, and Professor, by courtesy, of Health Policy

Wearable Ultrasound for Cardiovascular Digital Twins

James Landay | Denning Co-Director of Stanford HAI, Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor of Computer Science

Todd Coleman | Associate Professor in Bioengineering, and by courtesy, Electrical Engineering

Alison Marsden | Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Disease in Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and, by courtesy, Mechanical Engineering.

Jeremy Dahl | Associate Professor in Pediatric Radiology

Parker Ruth | Graduate Student in Computer Science

Biochemistry and Physiology of Taurine Metabolites in Human Performance

Jonathan Long | Associate Professor of Pathology

Joshua Knowles | Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine

Connecting the Gut Microbiome to Endurance: Mechanisms and Causality

Justin Sonnenburg | Alex and Susie Algard Endowed Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

Katrin Svensson | Assistant Professor of Pathology

Anita Reddy | Postdoctoral Scholar in Microbiology and Immunology

Improving Expert Musicians’ Performance through Synchrony Analysis & Intervention

Peter Tass | Professor of Neurosurgery

Elizabeth Schumann | Billie Bennett Achilles Director of Keyboard Programs and Assistant Professor of Music

Julia Tom | Cellist and Graduate Student in Neuroscience

Kanishk Chauhan | Postdoctoral Scholar in Neurosurgery

Justus Kromer | Basic Life Research Scientist in Neurosurgery

Aging-Related Impairments in Bone Healing and Enhancing Recovery in Aged Models

Fan Yang | Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and of Bioengineering

Anne Brunet | Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professor of Genetics

Stuart Goodman | The Robert L. and Mary Ellenburg Professor of Surgery and Professor, by courtesy, of Bioengineering

Bo Wang | Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, Developmental Biology