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TCCI® Releases Its 2019 Annual Report
We’re pleased to share with you our 2019 Annual Report which highlights the tremendous progress made at both The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech and The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research (previously The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research) in Shanghai. The report highlights research, events […]
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Mapping Bacterial Neighborhoods in the Gut
The microscopic populations of bacteria in our intestines are, in some ways, just like us: They live in communities, eat, work, reproduce, and eventually die. Some live in harmony with our bodies but others don’t, putting us at increased risk for a variety of diseases. Now, Caltech researchers in the laboratory of Sarkis Mazmanian, Luis B. […]
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2020 TCCI Spring Newsletter
We are excited to share with you TCCI’s 2019 Annual Report which you can view or download by clicking on the image above. As you will see, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience
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Neuroscience Research Facilities Blend Individual Research Hubs and Novel Interdisciplinary Spaces
Learn more about the innovative, new $190M home for the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech which opens in late 2020. Read the article in Tradeline
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Biomarker for Parkinson’s Disease May Originate in the Gut
Researchers in the lab of Viviana Gradinaru, professor of neuroscience and biological engineering, Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator and director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, may have discovered a link between neurons in the gut and Parkinson’s Disease, a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder, impairing […]
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Two TCCI®-affiliated Faculty Members at Caltech Receive Sloan Research Fellowship
Yuki Oka, assistant professor of biology and Chen Scholar and Joseph Parker, assistant professor of biology and biological engineering were among four Caltech Faculty Members who recently received the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2020. The fellowships, awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, “seek to stimulate fundamental research by early career scientists and scholars […]
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Vilcek Foundation Prize Awarded to Viviana Gradinaru
Viviana Gradinaru, Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering, has been named one of the 2020 recipients of the Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, an award recognizing exceptional early to mid-career immigrant biomedical scientists. Gradinaru is a Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator and Director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience […]
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Check out the progress on the Chen Neuroscience Research Building at Caltech
Since breaking ground in December, 2017, the team at Caltech have done a great job keeping construction of the Chen Neuroscience Research Building on schedule. On current course and speed, it is slated to open in October this year. Now you can walk through the building’s various milestones in video! Watch the videos on […]
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TCCI 2019 Annual Report
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Protein Signposts Guide Formation of Neural Connections
A major goal of neuroscience is understanding how all of the brain’s neurons know how to connect to each other to achieve optimum function. Scientists often study the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster because their brains are “hardwired” (meaning nearly identical). Now, Caltech researchers have determined how part of the fly’s visual system forms, an important piece in […]