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 […]

Jessica Hammer thinks the most important technology for making games is the brain.   The Thomas and Lydia Moran Associate Professor of Learning Science, jointly appointed in the HCI Institute and the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Hammer says “My games are designed to put the player into an altered state, so their brain […]

Five Caltech researchers—four TCCI-affiliated faculty members and one postdoctoral scholar—have been awarded grants from the High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR) Program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These NIH Director’s Awards are “prestigious awards that are given to exceptionally creative scientists proposing high-risk, high-impact research at all career stages,” and were created “to support unconventional […]

Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and tenured Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, interviews David Anderson, PhD, a world expert in the science of sexual behavior, violent aggression, fear and other motivated states on his podcast. Dr. Anderson is the Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology and Director and […]

On September 2, 2022, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI) Translational Center worked with Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, NeuroXess, Chinese Neuroscience Society and Shanghai Society for Neuroscience to host a first-of-its-kind forum featuring “Brain-Computer Interface Ushers in A New Future for Human Brain” during WAIC 2022. Professor Jinbo Hu, Director of […]

The 6th of June marked 2022 National Eyecare Day in China and the successful launch of a webinar on “Using transcription, cells and computation to analyze visual performance and abnormality”. The webinar was the first session of a series of online seminars celebrating “National Science and Technology Workers’ Day” created by the Chinese Neuroscience Society. […]