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Get a Closer Look at Construction of the Chen Neuroscience Research Center
Follow up-to-the-minute progress on construction of the Chen Neuroscience Research Center at Caltech which will open Fall 2020. This innovative site shows you a variety of time-lapse and panoramic shots of the building site. Click here to visit the website
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BLOOMBERG: A Chinese Billionaire Is Using His Fortune to Unlock the Human Brain
Shanda Investment Group founder Tianqiao Chen has dedicated $1 billion to help with research that he says may be on the cusp of major breakthroughs related to the human brain. Read the full story on BLOOMBERG
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CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY: In Search of the Secret to Happiness
Our brains are responsible for cognition, emotion, movement, memory, and all else that we do and feel. Yet scientists still don’t know much about the fundamentals of how the brain works and what causes mental disorders. The Chinese philanthropists Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo hope to change that. Read the full article here. (Subscription […]
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Switching Brain Circuits On and Off Without Surgery
The laboratory of Mikhail Shapiro, assistant professor of chemical engineering and an affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, is showing how scientists and doctors might, in the future, use new noninvasive techniques for controlling brain circuits to help treat neurological conditions such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. […]
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Scientists Can Now Predict Intelligence from Brain Scans
Ralph Adolphs, Director of the Caltech Brain Imaging Center, together with researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of Salerno has shown that their new computing tool can predict a person’s intelligence from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of their resting state brain activity. Functional MRI develops a map of brain activity by […]
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MEDIUM: The Chinese Buddhist Billionaire Who Wants to Fix Your Brain
China’s first internet titan is throwing billions at the mysteries of our gray matter Read the full story on MEDIUM
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2018 TCCI Spring Newsletter
As Spring starts to blossom here on the West Coast, we hope that 2018 (the Year of the Dog!) is going well for you so far. TCCI momentum is building, our community continues to expand and we are
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Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute Signs Agreement with Shanghai Mental Health Center
Shanghai, June 6th, 2018: The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute today signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai Mental Health Center, the leading professional mental health hospital in China (affiliated mental health center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine). Both parties will jointly invest in advanced resources to further the study of mental […]
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Committee of 100: 2018 Leadership Award for Advancing US-China relations
Four distinguished individuals honored at successful two-day C100 Annual Conference to promote U.S.-China relations New York, NY, May 31, 2018) Earlier this month, the Committee of 100 — the nation’s premier organization focused on U.S.-China relations and Chinese American advancement — honored and awarded four individuals for their Leadership and Lifetime Achievements in Advancing […]
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David Anderson Awarded 2018 Scolnick Prize
Congratulations to David Anderson, the director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, for receiving the 2018 Scolnick Prize. David was recognized for his contributions to the isolation and characterization of neural stem cells and for his research on neural circuits that control emotional behaviors in animal models. Read the Full Article