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Vilcek Foundation Prize Awarded to Viviana Gradinaru
Viviana Gradinaru, Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering, has been named one of the 2020 recipients of the Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, an award recognizing exceptional early to mid-career immigrant biomedical scientists. Gradinaru is a Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator and Director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience […]
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Check out the progress on the Chen Neuroscience Research Building at Caltech
Since breaking ground in December, 2017, the team at Caltech have done a great job keeping construction of the Chen Neuroscience Research Building on schedule. On current course and speed, it is slated to open in October this year. Now you can walk through the building’s various milestones in video! Watch the videos on […]
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Protein Signposts Guide Formation of Neural Connections
A major goal of neuroscience is understanding how all of the brain’s neurons know how to connect to each other to achieve optimum function. Scientists often study the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster because their brains are “hardwired” (meaning nearly identical). Now, Caltech researchers have determined how part of the fly’s visual system forms, an important piece in […]
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A Decade of Discovery
Caltech looks back at their remarkable progress over the last ten years. In a sweeping review of the school’s various departments, the article touches on the contributions of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience in a section called “Understanding the Brain.”. Read the article on Caltech’s website
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How Interacting with Females Increases Aggression in Male Fruit Flies
Caltech researchers have made progress toward understanding the neurological basis of the heightened aggression that male Drosophila show toward one another after recent encounters with females. Their research shows that your brain takes recent experiences into account when coordinating your responses to external stimuli. The study was conducted in the laboratory of David Anderson, Seymour Benzer Professor of […]
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Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research develops “Shanghai Cognitive Impairment Services Map” with the Shanghai Centers for Disease Control
Innovative Online Tool Will Help Those Seeking Treatment Find Nearest and Most Appropriate Treatment Centers Shanghai. Dec 2, 2019. The Shanghai Cognitive Impairment Services Map, developed by the Shanghai Centers for Disease Control in conjunction with the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research (TCCI®) and the Shanghai Mental Health Center, is now […]
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TCCI® Translational Center Co-organizes International Symposium on Translational Research in Brain Stimulation
The International Symposium on Translational Research in Brain Stimulation: Neurophysiology, Neural Coding and Neural Control was held in Shanghai in November 2019.The meeting was organized by Fudan University’s Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research, the National Engineering Laboratory for Neuromodulation, Tsinghua University, The Ministry […]
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Visualizing DNA Labels in Cells and Tissues
Caltech researchers have developed an innovative way to understand how individual cells communicate with each other and grow over time. Previous techniques have used DNA sequencing to detect DNA barcodes – a process which involves breaking down tissue samples so the DNA from individual cells can be extracted and sequenced. The new technique uses […]