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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
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Inside Philanthropy: An Era of Excitement and Growth for the Field of Brain Research
Good news for the field of brain research! Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo’s billion-dollar commitment is called out in this article which highlights the growing interest and support for brain research from a number of philanthropists. The article describes how funders see this as an opportunity to answer age-old scientific questions of basic brain function, […]
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Paralyzed Patient Feels Sensation After Caltech Researchers Stimulate His Brain
Scientists at Caltech have, for the first time, induced natural sensations in the arm of a paralyzed man by stimulating a certain region of the brain with a tiny array of electrodes. The work could one day allow paralyzed people using prosthetic limbs to feel physical feedback from sensors placed on these devices. The […]
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How Insects Can Help Us Understand Evolution
Watch this interview with Joe Parker, an entomologist, assistant professor of biology and affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech. Joe ‘s decades-long fascination with bugs and beetles led him to study a particular species of beetle that might help us answer some of the fundamental questions of evolution. […]
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2018 TCCI Summer Newsletter
We’re excited to let you know that our first documentary, “Minds Wide Open,” is ready for prime time! Today we announced that the film will air on the Discovery Channel in the U.S. and China between September 11 and 18.
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Mapping the Neural Circuit Governing Thirst
Yuki Oka, an affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, has discovered the circuit of neurons in the mouse brain that regulates thirst by stimulating or suppressing the drive to drink water. His research also provides insight into how the human brain recognizes when a person is dehydrated […]
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Understanding the Brain’s Fear Circuit
Dean Mobbs, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience had a paper published in the March 6 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Mobbs and his co-authors show for the first time that there are two areas of the brain involved in processing […]
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You Don’t Think Your Way Out of a Tiger Attack
In a paper appearing in the March 6 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Caltech Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Dean Mobbs and his co-authors show for the first time that there are two areas of the brain involved in processing fear. The areas, which they call “fear circuits,” split up the responsibility for […]