This article is a translation of an article written and produced by Thecorestory x Guyu Lab.   Text: Wei Ling, Photo: Feng Xinhui; Editor: Lin Shanshan; Production: Guyu x Thecorestory   You can find the original Chinese article here:  https://www.huxiu.com/article/322707.html     More than money, love, medicine or time, it is truth that gives one […]

A research project supported by the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research recently identified an innovative approach to help identify mental disorders – analyzing one’s brain activity while watching movies. The paper introducing this discovery was published in the October issue of the international scientific journal Neuroimage.   This study collected and analyzed the […]

The academic journal Nature recently  published an article introducing the latest developments in brain science in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta in China with a full page focused on the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research. TCCI’s Translational Research Institute is dedicated to the research and application of technology such as digital […]

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, recently joined the Caltech faculty to study the processes that guide early embryonic development. The team at Caltech interviewed her about her work…and the importance of mentorship.   Read the Interview on Caltech’s website

For centuries, treating neurological conditions meant developing therapies or drugs that directly targeted the brain. Today, scholars like Sarkis Mazmanian argue that research, drugs, and therapy should actually focus on the gut.   Watch the TEDMED talk

Chinese billionaire Tianqiao Chen has turned the bouts of anxiety he began experiencing 10 years ago—during the height of his success running the popular online gaming company Shanda Interactive Entertainment—into a $1 billion passion for helping scientists understand how the brain works.   Read the full article on the Barron’s website

Two years ago, we worked with Caltech to create the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience, where research spans a continuum, from deciphering the basic biology of the brain to understanding sensation, perception, cognition, and human behavior.   Read some fun facts on the Caltech website

Shanda Investment Group founder Tianqiao Chen has dedicated $1 billion to help with research that he says may be on the cusp of major breakthroughs related to the human brain.   Read the full story on BLOOMBERG

Our brains are responsible for cognition, emotion, movement, memory, and all else that we do and feel. Yet scientists still don’t know much about the fundamentals of how the brain works and what causes mental disorders. The Chinese philanthropists Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo hope to change that.   Read the full article here. (Subscription […]

China’s first internet titan is throwing billions at the mysteries of our gray matter   Read the full story on MEDIUM