With the advance and progress of genome editing technology, that reshapes the neuroscience among other fields. The genome manipulation becomes easier and accessible, which was hard to achieve or even impossible in the past. In order to increase the exchange of scientists in the field, Tsinghua McGovern for brain research hosted a one day symposium and hoped the idea exchange would nourish the future collaboration between groups, and stimulate brilliant ideas to better understand and prevent the diseases.

On May 19, 2015, the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research hosted a “Tsinghua McGovern Neurotechnology Lunch Seminar” at Tsinghua University.?Dr.Qikun Xue, Vice President of Tsinghua University, spoke at the lunch seminar.

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.

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.

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。

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,

11月24日，清华大学-IDG/麦戈文脑科学研究院揭牌典礼在清华大学郑裕彤医学楼脑科学研究院举行，捐赠人美国国际数据集团（IDG）创始人兼董事长麦戈文（Patrick McGovern）先生及夫人劳拉? 麦戈文（Lore Harp McGovern）等出席活动。