In Mid-May, The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) for Translational Research in Shanghai hosted a symposium, titled “Games as Brain Disease Therapy.” Prominent specialists from the US and China presented their latest findings. This pioneering, cross-disciplinary research symposium in China attracted the attendance and attention of over a hundred experts from the gaming and […]

The London Brand Film Festival announced today that TCCI’s documentary had won a 2019 Gold award in the Best Brand Documentary category. This is the eighth international award the film, which highlights recent advances in brain science, has received.   Watch a free, 26-minute version of the film

In April 2019, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) for Translational Research co-hosted the International Conference on the Clinical Assessment of Cognitive Impairment together with the Shanghai Medical Doctors Association, and the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, China.   The four-day conference and training sessions invited 10 well-known experts and […]

With the two Gold and one Bronze World Medals, the brain science documentary has won seven international awards and is shortlisted for a 2019 Brand Film Festival London Award. Watch a full version of the film at: https://youtu.be/dkyntB4POQY   Menlo Park, CA. Minds Wide Open, a film commissioned by the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute, […]

We are honored that our documentary “Minds Wide Open” has been shortlisted for a Brand Film Festival London Award!   Fingers crossed – winners will be announced in early May.

We’re happy to introduce TCCI’s first Annual Report which endeavors to highlight the momentum and accomplishments enjoyed by our institutional partners, private investigators and graduate fellows in 2018. We’ve included a summary of the exciting research coming out of TCCI at Caltech, highlighted awards won by TCCI-affiliated scientists around the world and tried to give […]

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.