An interdisciplinary team of Caltech researchers has received an NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program. The grant is part of the NIH Common Fund, which supports high-impact programs across NIH institutes and centers. The Transformative Research Award, established in 2009, promotes cross-cutting, interdisciplinary approaches and is […]

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has selected Joe Parker, assistant professor of biology and biological engineering, Chen Scholar, and director of Caltech’s Center for Evolutionary Science, as a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. The MacArthur Fellowship is an $800,000, “no strings attached” grant awarded to individuals in a variety of fields who have shown […]

The SfN Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Young Investigator Award recognizes the outstanding achievements and contributions by young neuroscientists who lead independent research groups. The award is supported by the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute and includes a $25,000 prize shared by the recipients and recipients’ travel to the SfN annual meeting. This year’s recipients are […]

For the second year, the Neurophotonics Center cohosted the Neuroscience of the Everyday World conference alongside the Center for Brain Recovery and Hariri Institute, sponsored by the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute on August 26 and 27, 2024. This two-day conference, held on the 17th floor of the Computing and Data Sciences building, featured presentations, […]

Caltech graduate student Honami Tanaka has been named to the 2024 cohort of the Quad Fellowship, an initiative of the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States designed to promote social good and foster intercultural ties through scientific and technological innovation. This year, the cohort also includes students from Southeast Asian countries in […]

Caltech professors Viviana Gradinaru (BS ’05) and André Hoelz have been named among 26 new investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). They join a community of more than 250 HHMI investigators across fields ranging from neuroscience to immunology to structural biology. Gradinaru is the Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Neuroscience and Biological […]

Richard Andersen, the James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience and director and Leadership Chair of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center at Caltech, has been awarded the 2024 International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation. The Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation supports and recognizes outstanding achievements in basic neurological research. Andersen shares […]

Congratulations to Professor of Biology Henry Lester who has been named the 2024 recipient of the Langley Award for Basic Research on Nicotine and Tobacco from the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT). The Langley Award Honors scientists who have made groundbreaking advances in basic nicotine research in the areas of pharmacology, neuroscience, […]

On March 23, 2024, the 100th session of “GASA Science Classics”, a charitable popular science project sponsored by Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®), was held at the Shanghai Science Hall. Professor Bai Lu from Tsinghua University, together with a number of scientists and scholars, introduced The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of Revolution in […]

With the help of directed evolution, scientists inch closer to developing viral vectors that can cross the human blood-brain barrier to deliver gene therapy. The Scientists speaks with Beverly Davidson, a scientist at UPenn and Viviana Gradinaru, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Gradinaru’s work focuses on adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors as […]