IMIBR organized its first retreat from May 9 to May 10 at Great Wall Village. The main topic is to discuss the development strategy for IMIBR and “Tsinghua Brain Project” under the coming China’s Brain Project. The theme is “think big, team-work and have fun”. There are a total of 23 people joined the retreat.

Dr. Douglas Black from HHMI/UCLA, Dr. Xiangdong Fu from UCSD,? Dr. Zilong Qiu, Represented by Dr. Tian-Lin Cheng, Institute of Neuroscience (ION), Shanghai, Dr. Jisong Guan, Dr. Yichang Jia, Dr. Xiaohua Shen, and Dr. Geng Wang from Tsinghua, 7 professors presented their research in the symposium. There are about 200 students.

时间：2014年9月9日， 上午9：00-10:00 地点： 医学科学楼 B323

5月28日，清华-医科院神经科学联合研讨会在清华大学医学院召开。研讨会由医学院常务副院长鲁白教授召集并主持，热烈欢迎来自中国医学科学院/北京协和医院的10名神经科学教授和专家医生与清华麦戈文脑科学研究院的教授/研究员们相互交流。

2014 Tsinghua McGovern Mini Symposium of Graduate Students and Poster Exhibition was held at the McGovern Hall at the Cheng Yu Tung Medical Sciences Building on the afternoon of May 13, 2014. Ms. Lore Harp McGovern, one of the sponsors of IMIBR Tsinghua and Dr. Robert Desimone, Director of McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT were in attendance. Professor Bai LU, Dean of School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Professor Yi ZHONG, Director of IMIBR Tsinghua, and Professor Bo HONG, Vice Dean of School of Medicine, Tsinghua University were also in attendance at the seminars and related activities. McGovern Institute professors and investigators, post-doctoral and graduate students all actively participated in the symposium.

2014年4月1日，来自美国自然科学基金和世界技术评估中心的专家莅临清华大学医学院生物医学影像研究中心参观访问。

2014年3月17日上午国家卫计委副主任、国家食品药品监督管理总局副局长尹力来清华医学院调研工作并参观了清华麦戈文脑研究院。

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Mr. Patrick McGovern, on March 19, 2014. Since the founding of the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Tsinghua,