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

Good news for the field of brain research! Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo’s billion-dollar commitment is called out in this article which highlights the growing interest and support for brain research from a number of philanthropists. The article describes how funders see this as an opportunity to answer age-old scientific questions of basic brain function, […]

Tianqiao Chen & Chrissy Luo were recently named “Science Funders of the Year” by Inside Philanthropy in its 2017 Annual Inside Philanthropy Awards (the IPPYs). The online magazine recognized the couple’s $1 billion commitment to brain science and highlighted the Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute’s $115 million gift to Caltech to create a unique neuroscience […]

“A dozen years ago, the largest internet company in China wasn’t Alibaba or Tencent, but game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. Its founder was a young man named Chen Tianqiao, who had become a billionaire at 30.”   Read the full article on Bloomberg