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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.

Keep Your Cool: Advanced Textiles Optimizing Sweat Dynamics for Peak Performance in Heat

Vivian Feig | Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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

Shuchi Anand | Director of Stanford Center for Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease, Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephrology)

ELITErun: Exploring Longitudinal Immunophenotyping in Top Endurance Runners

Catherine Blish | George E. and Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine

Michael Fredericson | Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Director of PM&R Sports Medicine

Susan Holmes | Professor of Statistics

Uma Mangalanathan | Research Assistant in the Catherine Blish Lab

Mapping the Genetic and Regulatory Circuits Mediating the Impact of Physical Activity on Health and Disease

Anshul Kundaje | Associate Professor of Genetics and Computer Science

Stephen Montgomery | Professor of Pathology, Genetics, Biomedical Data Science

Predictive Simulation of Entire Athletic Activities Using High-Performance Musculoskeletal Simulation on the GPU

Kayvon Fatahalian | Associate Professor of Computer Science

Karen Liu | Professor of Computer Science

Scott Delp | James H. Clark Professor of Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Orthopaedic Surgery, Director of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Stanford

Epigenetic Drivers of Human Skeletal Muscle Adaptation to Training, Detraining and Retraining

Malene Lindholm | Senior Research Engineer in Medicine,  Director of the Human Molecular Athlete Moonshot for the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Stanford

David Amar | Assistant Professor in Computer Science and AI, and Human Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University

Stephen Montgomery | Professor of Pathology, Genetics, Biomedical Data Science

Manuel Rivas | Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science

Eric Leslie | Postdoctoral Scholar in Cardiovascular Medicine

Monitoring the Trajectory of Postpartum Physical Performance and Pelvic Floor Recovery

Feliks Kogan | Assistant Professor of Radiology

Emily Kraus | Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

Amy Dobberfuhl | Assistant Professor of Urology

Ekene Enemchukwu | Associate Professor of Urology

Vipul Sheth | Assistant Professor of Radiology

Lauren Watkins | Research Engineer of Radiology

Rachel Shalit | Assistant Research Coordinator of Radiology