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Chen Institute Establishes a New Chen Frontier Lab with Shanghai Mental Health Center; Donates 50 million yuan.
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. […]
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Tianqiao Chen, at the Frontier of Supporting Fundamental Research through Philanthropy
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 […]
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Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) Summer School Launches at Cold Spring Harbor Asia
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 […]
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TCCI® Investigator Wins Sail Award at World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2021
On July 8, Professor Tao Hu, Deputy Director and Researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Investigator at the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®), won a SAIL (Super AI Leader) Award at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2021 for his achievements with a brain-computer […]
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Identifying the Neural Link Between Gut Bacteria and Social Behavior in Mice
New research conducted primarily in the laboratory of Sarkis Mazmanian, Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology, HRMI Investigator and affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, shows that germs living inside our bodies could be affecting our ability to socialize and make friends…at least for mice. […]
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Neural Circuitry Underlying REM Sleep
Professor Zhili Huang, a researcher from Fudan University, president of the Chinese Sleep Research Society and a Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) Investigator, recently published a paper titled “Neural Circuitry Underlying REM Sleep: A review of the literature and current concepts” in the journal Progress in Neurobiology. In the paper, Professor Huang discussed […]
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Computers Predict People’s Tastes in Art
A new Caltech study, appearing in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, shows that a simple computer program can accurately predict which style of paintings a person will like. Using Amazon’s crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk to enlist more than 1,500 volunteers to rate paintings in the genres of impressionism, cubism, abstract, and color field, the volunteers’ […]
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2021 TCCI Summer Newsletter
Welcome to the glorious first days of summer, made even more enjoyable with the new freedoms granted to us by the rapidly spreading wave of vaccinations around the world. After more than a year of complete isolation, we have
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Recording Brain Activity with Laser Light
A Caltech professor, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Southern California, has demonstrated for the first time a new technology for imaging the human brain using laser light and ultrasonic sound waves. The technology, known as photoacoustic computerized tomography, or PACT, has been developed by Lihong Wang, Bren Professor of Medical Engineering […]
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What might be a mechanism that leads to brain-to-brain coupling in teaching and learning?
This question is raised by one of the TCCI Neurochat 2021 speakers. We are continuously collecting questions from young scientists all over the world. We will explore insightful answers with leading experts. Please pay attention to our website and WeChat platform (nextquestion)!