- Two Vallee Foundation scientists - Wade Harper and Feng Zhang - have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Elena Conti and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz have been named the 2018 Vallee Visiting Professors.
- Carla Shatz learnt a lot when she took her VVP sabbatical at Columbia's Zuckerman Mind Brain and Behavior Institute last fall.
- Karen Vousden (VVP 2016) has been elected to the Board of Bristol-Meyers Squibb.
- Carla Shatz (VVP 2017), a Stanford neuroscientist goes where her curiosity leads.
- Feng Zhang (VS ), award-winning biologist suggests Taiwan invest in basic research
- Five early career scientists have been chosen as this year's Vallee Scholars.
- Inder Verma spent his month's VVP sabbatical at the LMB, Cambridge, UK, with KJ Patel, Alan Fersht (VVP 2008), and Venki Ramakrishnan in June/July.