Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute

About Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute

The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) was created in 2016 by Tianqiao Chen and his wife Chrissy Luo, the founders of Shanda Group, with a US $1 billion commitment to help advance fundamental brain research around the world. The organization’s vision is to improve the human experience by understanding how our brains perceive, learn and interact with the world. TCCI® created the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech in 2016 with a US $115 million donation. In 2017, the couple committed CNY 500 million to create the Tianqiao Chen Institute for Translational Research, a partnership with the Zhou Liangfu Foundation, Huashan Hospital and Shanghai Mental Health Center. In October 2020, TCCI opened the Chen Frontier Lab for Applied Neurotechnology and the Chen Frontier Lab for AI and Mental Health opened in July 2021.