A KPMG philanthropy case study: Collaboration and innovation to drive medical research   This profile is a part of KPMG’s “Philanthropists in Action” case study series, which looks at emerging trends in the philanthropy landscape, as the Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) agenda and a desire to create social impact climb the priority list of Family […]

Program equips neuroscientists with Artificial Intelligence and Data Science skills to help them interpret the vast amounts of data generated in the lab.   Pasadena, Dec 6, 2021. Celebrating its five-year anniversary, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech today announced the creation of the Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI). […]

David Van Valen, assistant professor of biology and biological engineering and affiliated faculty member of the Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, has been named a 2021 Moore Inventor Fellow. He is one of five fellows named this year by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.   Each fellow receives $825,000 to “further the development […]

Mikhail Shapiro, professor of chemical engineering and affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator. He is one of 33 scientists named as investigators this year by HHMI, a nonprofit medical research organization founded by the late billionaire, engineer, […]

TCCI® for Neuroscience Research Building at Caltech has been awarded LEED Gold certification for its numerous sustainable features. This hub for studying the brain consumes nearly 30 percent less energy than a typical lab building. It also features native and drought-resistant vegetation, and serves as a model for resiliency with a one-megawatt fuel cell able […]

Tencent outlines “game as a service” efforts, teases latest endeavor, “Palvov: Brain’it On”   Tencent, through the Social Value Research Center of Tencent Games, today shared its “game as a service” collaboration with industries to develop serious games at the International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH) conference, in its latest push […]

On July 30, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute organized the first “TCCI® ZNext Webinar” in China. Four young scientists conducted online roundtable talks centered on the topic “How do we understand cognition and behaviors in real-world context?” and had the opportunity to ask and answer questions with other scholars and students watching the live […]

On July 26, 2021, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) donated 50 million yuan and signed a contract with Shanghai Mental Health Center (SMHC) to jointly establish a new Chen Frontier lab focused on improving evaluation and interventions for mental diseases of large populations using big data and AI-powered analysis of individual behaviors and symptoms. […]

An interview with Xinhua News Agency   On July 26, 2021, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) donated 50 million yuan and signed an agreement with Shanghai Mental Health Center (SMHC) to jointly establish a new Chen Frontier Lab. This is the second lab TCCI® has set up in China and also an integral part […]

Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) Continues to Support Scientific Exchange and Training   On July 17, the 2021 Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) summer school started classes at Cold Spring Harbor Asia in Suzhou, China. The summer school was initiated by Wu Si, Zach Mainen and Upinder Bhalla in 2010 and was supported by […]