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 […]

Innovative Online Tool Will Help Those Seeking Treatment Find Nearest and Most Appropriate Treatment Centers   Shanghai. Dec 2, 2019. The Shanghai Cognitive Impairment Services Map, developed by the Shanghai Centers for Disease Control in conjunction with the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research (TCCI®) and the Shanghai Mental Health Center, is now […]

The International Symposium on Translational Research in Brain Stimulation: Neurophysiology, Neural Coding and Neural Control was held in Shanghai in November 2019.The meeting was organized by Fudan University’s Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research, the National Engineering Laboratory for Neuromodulation, Tsinghua University,  The Ministry […]

Yuki Oka, assistant professor of biology and Chen Scholar at Caltech, has received $1.5 million in funding from the New York Stem Cell Foundation. The award, distributed over five years, is one of three given internationally to early career neuroscience researchers. Oka is the first researcher at Caltech to receive the neuroscience investigator award.   […]

The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research recently supported the 13th Biennial Conference of Chinese Neuroscience Society (CNS 2019), the most prestigious event in the Chinese neuroscience field, which took place in October in Suzhou China. The conference hosted about 50 symposia, and over 3,700 scientists from dozens of countries and regions attended. […]