A Stanford team is recruiting participants for a study on performance and resilience in sport. The study explores how athletes manage mindset around competition. Each participant will receive $50 for completing the study.
Learn more: humanperformancealliance.org/participate/...
Research from the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance is featured in Scientific American. @timalthoff and team analyzed smartphone data from 2 million people and found people who moved to more walkable cities took about 1,100 more steps per day.
Read more: www.scientificamerican.com/article/movi...
Wu Tsai Alliance member Marily Oppezzo, a dietitian and researcher at Stanford, was featured in @nytimes discussing popular supplements, helping to break down what actually works, what doesn't, and what might surprise you.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Research by Dimitrije Cabarkapa, Andrew Fry, and team analyzed countermovement jumps in 14 female Olympic sprinters.
Takeaway: 100m sprinters thrive on explosive power training. 400m sprinters need a mix of speed and strength-endurance.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40963773/
Why does the face scar less than the back?
Wu Tsai Alliance member Michael Longaker and colleagues figured out why, and they found a drug that, in mice, can make skin from other parts of the body heal more like facial skin.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Congrats to the six teams selected for the Wu Tsai Performance Agility Project awards at Stanford! These projects were identified as having potential to advance our understanding of biological principles underlying human performance: humanperformance.stanford.edu/news/announc...
@Nature spotlighted Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance alumnus Siddharth Doshi's research on nanoscale materials that shift color and texture, which one day could be used to monitor performance signals.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Allv...
McGill University and their Sports Science Institute has joined the Wu Tsai Alliance as an institutional partner!
They have a new faculty position: Tenure track Assistant Professor Applied Exercise Physiology.
Deadline: March 2, 2026
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
Stanford Research Study – Participants Needed
Do you have a regular menstrual cycle? A Stanford team is developing a non-invasive tool to monitor uterine contractions during the menstrual cycle, and they're looking for women to participate.
Learn more: humanperformancealliance.org/participate/...
Olympian Kate Grace and sports dietitian Nicole Farnsworth share nutritional tips for postpartum athletes returning to sport, including busting myths about exercise and milk supply.
humanperformancealliance.org/playbook/nut...
As Milano Cortina 2026 kicks off, a record number of mother-athletes are chasing Olympic glory, from bobsled champion Kaillie Humphries to snowboard legend Jamie Anderson. How do they fuel their comebacks?
In honor of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, catch up on our Female Athlete Research Meeting now on YouTube!
Nearly 400 attendees explored menstrual cycle physiology, fermented foods and the microbiome, and more.
#NGWSD #NGWSD2026
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Mt. Whitney permit lottery is open and you know what that means! It's time to talk altitude sickness. Watch researcher Sela Fallon-Salzman summit the tallest peak in the Lower 48 and break down the science with Dr. Tatum Simonson.
youtu.be/PTwcT0kZwtE?...
Alliance member and exercise physiologist @me_lindholm talks to @WIRED about VO2 max: why it's the best predictor for premature mortality, and why reaching your true max is harder than you think.
Read the full piece in WIRED: www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Kate Ackerman, Director of WHSP Institute and Alliance member, was featured in @CNN. Her team's study of 1,000+ Boston Marathon runners found underfueling was linked to slower times & 2.8x higher medical risk.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/16/s...
Alliance Agility Project awardee @ccstorytime & her team at the Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen found that eccentric exercises trigger rapid cellular changes not in the tendon itself, but at the muscle-tendon junction & between tendon fibers.
humanperformancealliance.org/news/study-s...
Did you know the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance has a library of resources and they're free to explore? We have a growing collection of resources for researchers, coaches, performance staff, and anyone looking to level up: humanperformancealliance.org/resources/
The science of fueling female athletes is starting to get the attention it deserves, and it has nothing to do with eating less.
Here are four nutrition takeaways from the inaugural Female Athlete Research Meeting at Stanford.
humanperformancealliance.org/news/four-ke...
Know an athlete who might want to help us develop this mobile-phone based tool to assess injury resilience? Please share this post.
A Stanford University team is recruiting healthy athletes for the SMART Study for Injury Resilience.
humanperformancealliance.org/participate/...
Biomechanics labs can take hours and cost thousands of dollars to analyze a single patient. GaitDynamics, a new foundation AI model from the Wu Tsai Alliance and @Stanford, analyzes movement & predicts joint forces 1,000x faster than traditional methods.
humanperformancealliance.org/news/foundat...
What if studying the healthiest people, not just the sickest, could transform medicine? The ELITE study, led by Drs. Euan Ashley and Maléne Lindholm, is decoding elite athlete genetics to transform medicine for all.
Read more at Stanford Magazine: stanfordmag.org/contents/pow...
New year, new fitness goals. But how do you know if you're training hard enough or too hard? We asked Stanford's Dr. Jeffrey Christle to separate the hype from the science.
humanperformancealliance.org/playbook/does-heart-rate-variability-detect-overtraining/
What if AI could help athletes train smarter and avoid injuries? Labs led by Alliance members Andrew McCulloch and Rose Yu at UC San Diego developed BIGE, a model that combines generative AI with realistic biomechanical constraints to do exactly that.
Read more: today.ucsd.edu/story/genera...
@outsidemagazine interviewed Alliance member Brad Wilkins, Director of the Oregon Performance Research Laboratory Human Physiology, about the popular trend in the running community of using nasal strips, and their effects on oxygen flow and performance.
run.outsideonline.com/road/road-cu...
"When it's so over-the-top like that, I kind of lose my scientist hat and just say, 'What we just saw may never happen again.'"
Wu Tsai Alliance Director Scott Delp spoke with @nytimes about what makes athletes like @shoheiohtani extraordinary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s...
Have you been diagnosed with a stress fracture? Participants are being recruited for a study on how stress fractures heal in the 1-year following diagnosis. Learn more: humanperformancealliance.org/participate/...
Clemson News featured former Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance postdoctoral fellow Reed Gurchiek and his efforts to develop an assistive device to help athletes recover from hamstring injuries. news.clemson.edu/clemson-rese...
High school students recently visited the Alliance's Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory to try motion-capture sprints, force plate jumps, grip strength testing, and more. Their results will be turned into personalized reports and training recommendations.
news.ku.edu/news/article...
Are you a young woman not on hormonal birth control? The Zeitzer Circadian Research Lab at Stanford University is recruiting women for a study on sleep, circadian rhythms, the menstrual cycle, gut, heart, and neuromuscular performance.
Learn more: humanperformancealliance.org/participate/...
@outsidemag.bsky.social interviewed Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance member Brad Wilkins of the University of Oregon about the popular trend in the running community of using nasal strips, and their effects on oxygen flow and performance.
run.outsideonline.com/road/road-cu...
