Research Infrastructure-Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence

Non-Human Primate Research Center

THBI manages a non-human primate research center on Tsinghua University campus. The center has dedicated animal housing and research facilities with a focus on the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), a highly social New World primate species. State-of-the-art facilities at the center allow researchers to conduct a wide-range of studies in marmosets, from brain imaging, complex social behavior analyses, to brain diseases models. The center is equipped with an operating room, a genetic manipulation room, an embryo culture room, behavioral and electrophysiology laboratories, and a high-field (9.4T) animal MRI scanner. The center will be capable of producing genetically modified marmoset models for both basic and translational research projects. THBI non-human primate research center is open to researchers at both Tsinghua University and other area institutions.

Brain Imaging Center

THBI manages a Brain Imaging Center to support cutting-edge research in neuroscience, neurological diseases, and artificial intelligence. Currently the facility has two high-performance Magnetic Resonance Imaging systems, one for human brain imaging and another for non-human primate studies. A 3.0 T Siemens MAGNETOM Prisma scanner, a high signal-to-noise ratio and a high-resolution MRI system, is used for analyzing human brain structure, brain function, and connection imaging. A 9.4T high-field small animal horizontal axis magnetic resonance imaging system (Brook BioSpec 94/30USR) is used for high-resolution (up to micro-scale) brain structure analysis and functional imaging of non-human primates such as marmosets. THBI researchers have full access to the Brain Imaging Center facility and are encouraged to collaborate with others at the university on a wide range of questions, from the neuroscience of language, music, emotion, decision-making, to neural signatures of social interactions.

SanCaiTang Office Area

The office area of Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence is located in the SanCaiTang Office Building. It is located on the 8th and 9th floors of the building, and the west side of the 1st and 7th floors. There are 5 core research teams working here. They are AI of Brain & Cognition Center, Child Cognition Center, Computational Neuroscience Center Auditory Cognition Center and Complex Network Intelligence Center.