We recently joined the International Brain Initiative (IBI), a collaborative of some of the world’s most significant brain research projects. The IBI’s vision of catalyzing and advancing ethical neuroscience through collaboration and knowledge-sharing aligns well with our own and we’re very happy to support the IBI’s upcoming coordinating body meeting, March 19-20, in Shanghai, China.   Read […]

Professor of Chemical Engineering Mikhail Shapiro has been named one of the 2019 recipients of the Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, a $50,000 award recognizing exceptional early to mid-career immigrant biomedical scientists. Shapiro, who is also an affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience, and his fellow prizewinners will be […]

New York Festivals TV & Film Awards recently named our documentary, Minds Wide Open, a finalist in three categories: Science & Technology Documentary, Feature Documentary Film and Branded Documentary Production. With entries from 50 countries, the awards are highly competitive. Winners will be honored at a National Association of Broadcasters event in Las Vegas in April. […]

  Take a bird’s eye look at the latest progress on construction site for the Chen Neuroscience Center at Caltech. The building is on track to be completed in Fall 2020.   Video Credit: Dr. M. Lombardini, Aeromana.

Public Affairs Asia recently awarded “Minds Wide Open” the “Gold Standard Award for Broadcast and Video” in Hong Kong. These awards recognize excellence across a variety of communication categories.   Read more about the awards

Nov, 20, China, This year’s “Wu Jieping Medical Innovation Award” was awarded to Professor Ying Mao, director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute of Brain Disease in Shanghai, and Vice-President of Huashan Hospital, along with five other professors. Jieping Wu is a famous medical scientist, medical educator, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, […]

Take a bird’s eye look at the latest progress on construction site for the Chen Neuroscience Center at Caltech. The building is on track to be completed in Fall 2020.   Video Credit: Dr. M. Lombardini, Aeromana.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has selected Doris Tsao, Caltech professor of biology, T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience Leadership Chair and Director and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, as a 2018 MacArthur Fellow for her pioneering work on perception and how are brains see faces. The MacArthur Fellowship is a $625,000 no-strings-attached […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a Pioneer Award to Viviana Gradinaru, professor of neuroscience and biological engineering, Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator and director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech.   The award is part of the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program and […]

“Minds Wide Open,” the documentary commissioned by the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®), recently won Gold Awards in three of the 2018 Cannes Corporate Media & TV Award film categories – medical, educational and science & technology.   Read more about the awards here.