03 July 2024

2024 Innovators and Influencers: Kausik Si, Ph.D.

From In Kansas City Magazine: Meet 10 people, including Stowers Scientific Director Kausik Si, Ph.D., who are making a difference in Kansas City.

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21 February 2024

Stowers Scientific Director Kausik Si receives coveted award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Scientific Director Kausik Si from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research alongside Investigator Lukasz Joachimiak from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center received CZI's Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards grant for their project titled, “Tuning memory by altering amyloids.”

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06 October 2023

Stowers members honored for 20 years of service

Forty-nine members reached 20 years of service at the Stowers Institute. The Institute founders, Jim and Virginia Stowers, envisioned establishing the Institute as a long-term investment for advancing foundational knowledge in biology for the benefit of all.

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11 May 2023

The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute celebrates graduates

The ceremony celebrated the accomplishments and future endeavors of the graduates who are continuing their scientific discoveries at cutting edge industry positions and at academic institutions including Harvard University, the Mayo Clinic, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, and The Rockefeller University.

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03 May 2023

New Investigators join Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Scientists recruited from MIT, NYU, and Princeton

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17 March 2023

#StowersImpact: Overland Park woman honors mother, raises awareness for foundational research in the fight against Alzheimer’s

As part of the #StowersImpact campaign, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research teamed up with the Alzheimer’s Association Heart of America and Greater Missouri Chapter to put a face to the disease that impacts so many people.

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14 March 2023

Stowers scientist talks power of the brain and research studying animal memory

Stowers Scientific Director, Kausik Si, Ph.D., recently appeared on the University of Kansas Hospital’s morning medical update discussing his research on the brain and memory as part of #BrainAwarenessWeek.

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14 March 2023

Five facts about memory and the brain

Memories of “firsts”—a first kiss, first love, first heartbreak—feel permanent. But why do we remember some moments yet forget others?

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14 December 2022

Stowers Investigator discusses memory research providing hope to Alzheimer’s patients on KU Hospital’s Morning Medical Update

Kausik Si, Ph.D. explains how his work studying memory is proposing a new theory when it comes to understanding Alzheimer’s and dementia.

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13 July 2022

Stowers Investigator Kausik Si discusses how memories are made and why Amyloids may have surprising benefits on the brain

KCUR 89.3, the local NPR affiliate in Kansas City, recently hosted Stowers Investigator Kausik Si, PhD, on the morning news program “Up to Date.”

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05 April 2021

New year brings new grant announcements for Stowers researchers

Several Stowers researchers have received funding notifications during the first quarter of 2021, including both investigators and trainees.

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28 December 2020

Functional amyloids: a “magical” protein state

How much maligned amyloids may be the key to our memories

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17 November 2020

Small differences, big impact

Researchers in the Krumlauf Lab have identified a handful of variations in an amino acid sequence critical for retaining the ancestral function of a gene over the course of 600 million years of evolution.

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01 September 2020

Stowers researchers supported by multiple mid-year award announcements

Several researchers at the Stowers Institute received award notifications during the past few months, including investigators, a postdoctoral researcher, and predoctoral researchers.

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13 March 2020

How the historically misunderstood amyloid helps to store memories

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01 July 2019

Transitions at the helm

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01 March 2017

Drawn to neuroscience

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05 December 2016

Research points to Orb2 as a physical substrate for memory strength, retention

How do you remember what happened today in the weeks and months that follow? Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have answered a piece of that question in a recent study.

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01 October 2016

Promotions and renewal

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01 October 2016

Returning to the fold: examining prions from new angles

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01 March 2016

Proteomics - a glimpse into the complicated inner lives of our cells

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03 December 2015

Potential biochemical mechanism underlying long-term memories identified

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01 October 2014

A discussion with Kausik Si, PhD

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12 February 2014

What makes memories last?

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01 October 2013

Who ya gonna call?

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27 January 2012

Making memories last

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27 October 2011

Joint project by Stowers researchers Blanchette and Si wins 2011 William B. Neaves Award

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