The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech was founded in 2016 with the generous support of philanthropists Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo. It is a key component of a neuroscience initiative that is geared toward deepening our understanding of the brain's structure and how the brain works at its most basic level, as well as why and how it fails as a result of disease or through the aging process.
Directed by David Anderson, Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience draws upon Caltech's strengths across a broad range of disciplines. It brings together faculty from throughout Caltech's academic divisions, catalyzing interactions within a diverse community of researchers from neuroscientists and biologists to economists, chemists, physicists, computer scientists, social scientists, and engineers. The work of these researchers will be focused through the Chen Institute's research centers.
![Structural images from a Caltech investigation of six of rare hemispherectomy patients, all of whom received the surgeries as children and now have relatively normal cognitive abilities. Brain networks in these patients - controlling walking, talking, and other functions - were remarkably intact. This study, published in Cell Reports [https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191119-095728876] was funded by The Brain Recovery Project: Childhood Epilepsy Surgery Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/neuroscience70/images/CBIC_Brain_scans_landscape.2e16d0ba.fill-520x250-c100.jpg)
