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 […]

This year’s FENS – Chen Institute – NeuroLéman Summer School will take place 25—31 Aug 2024 at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. It aims to integrate fundamental and clinical neuroscience with technology (with a special angle toward artificial intelligence tools) and harmonize these three levels of investigations around novel approaches applied to animals and humans […]

Viviana Gradinaru, Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering and director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, has been named the new director and Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair of the Richard N. Merkin Institute […]

David Van Valen, assistant professor of biology and biological engineering and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, and Rebecca Voorhees, assistant professor of biology and biological engineering and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, have been selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to the inaugural class of Freeman Hrabowski Scholars. The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program […]

FENS is delighted to announce the launch of the new FENS-Chen Institute NeuroLéman Summer School Series on Brain Dynamics in Health and Disease. In collaboration with the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI) and the NeuroLéman Network, this new Summer School series will explore cutting-edge technologies for basic and clinical neuroscience, in order to develop […]

Copper and LEED certification help intelligent neuroscience research building foster cross-disciplinary collaboration Chinese billionaire philanthropists Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo were inspired by a news item about research in which a person could control a robotic arm using only their mind. So much so, that they donated $115 million to help fund a neuroscience institute […]