On May 25, Tao Hu, Deputy Director and Researcher at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Investigator at the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute, won an Outstanding Contribution Award for Young Scientists in Shanghai.     Hu has been long been devoted to researching on new micro […]

On May 16, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) announced Pavlov: Brain’it on, its first brain cognition training game jointly developed with Tencent Games. It is expected to go live within this year.   The game is designed to improve the cognitive ability of teenagers. It consists of dozens of mini games that have different […]

The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech announced the recipients of this year’s Chen Institute Diversity and Inclusion Awards. These awards, for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in neuroscience at Caltech, are intended to recognize active individuals for the uncompensated time and effort they are dedicating to achieve diversity and inclusion at […]

Neuroscience has a new home. On Friday, January 29, Caltech hosted a virtual dedication for The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Neuroscience Research Building (CNRB), the newest addition to campus. Although the pandemic prevented the community from gathering in person to celebrate the opening of the new building, more than 850 Caltech leaders, researchers, students, alumni, […]

Can technology borrowed from biological studies reveal the ways in which gender and other factors influence how humans choose? Caltech neuroeconomist Colin Camerer takes us behind the scenes, describing how he gains a deeper understanding of decision-making behaviors by looking inside the brain as choices are made.   Colin Camerer is the Robert Kirby Professor […]

Doris Tsao, professor of biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and director and leadership chair of the T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience, was one of two Caltech faculty members inducted as the newest members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) this year. Membership in the academy is considered one of the highest honors […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]