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At Caltech, we are tackling one of the greatest scientific challenges and opportunities of our time: unlocking the secrets of the brain, the world’s most powerful biological and chemical computing machine. We are looking deep into the basic biology of the brain—the cells, circuitry, and molecular, chemical, and electrical pathways that not only orchestrate the transfer of information throughout the brain, but ultimately determine the brain’s function and dysfunction. We are probing the fundamental aspects of sensation, perception, cognition, and human behavior, and working to put what we learn into practice in developing new scientific tools and medical treatments that can improve the human condition. This work continues to advance Caltech’s long history of working across disciplinary boundaries to achieve the seemingly impossible. The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, established with a $115 million gift from philanthropists Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo, will be the cornerstone of this work as it moves forward, and thus will take Caltech’s neuroscience initiative—one of its newest and most coordinated scientific efforts—to the next level. |
| "By working in a more collaborative and interdisciplinary way, we have an opportunity to solve problems in neuroscience that none of us could achieve individually." —David Anderson, the Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and Director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience |
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