In 2016, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech was founded with a $1 billion committment as a key component of a neuroscience initiative that is geared toward deepening 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.

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.