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February 2020 News

Bonnie Bassler wins 2020 Gruber Prize

Vallee Visiting Professor Bonnie Bassler, PhD, (Princeton University and HHMI), will receive the... read more
February 2020 News

Congratulations to Vilcek Prize Winners!

Congratulations to Vallee Visiting Professor Xiaowei Zhuang (Harvard University) and Vallee... read more
January 2020 News

Two New VVPs

We are proud to announce the appointment of our much-coveted Visiting Vallee Professorships (... read more
January 2020 News

Emmanuelle Charpentier wins Wolf Prize

Many congratulations to Vallee Visiting Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Institute... read more
January 2020 News

New Name

As of January 1, 2020, the Foundation's legal name has been changed from "The Bert L & N... read more
December 2019 News

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz at Woods Hole

The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA, is an extraordinary institution that... read more
November 2019 News

2019 Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecture

Kyoko Nozaki, PhD, a highly regarded organic chemist, recently gave the third Kuggie Vallee... read more
November 2019 News

Vallee Scholar wins Allen Distinguished Investigator Award

Congratulations to Samantha Morris, PhD, (VS 2017) who has just been named one of this year's... read more
October 2019 News

Vallee Scholar wins Packard Fellowship

Congratulations are due to Susan Shao, PhD (VS 2018), Assistant Professor in the Department of... read more
October 2019 News

Kay Davies at the Koch Institute

Dame Kay Davies, Dr Lee’s Professor of Anatomy at the University of Oxford, has spent a packed... read more
October 2019 News

Elena Conti in Boulder

Elena Conti, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, has recently... read more
September 2019 News

Congratulations to Prizewinning VVPs!

F Ulrich Hartl (VVP 2018), Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, who shares a... read more
September 2019 News

Prof Sir Christopher Dobson (1949-2019)

Members of the Vallee Foundation will be sad to learn of the death of Sir Christopher Dobson this... read more
September 2019 News

2019 Vallee Scholars Announced

Boston, MA - September 2019 - Five exceptional young scientists have been chosen from a... read more
August 2019 News

2019 Vallee Scholars Meeting and Centennial Celebrations

This year’s Vallee Scholars Meeting was held in conjunction with Bert Vallee's Centennial... read more
April 2019 News

Two VVPs elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Vallee Visiting Professors Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (HHMA - Janelia Research Campus) and... read more
April 2019 News

Twin Study in Science

Vallee Scholar Christopher Mason (Weil Cornell Medicine) is one of a number of scientists who... read more
March 2019 News

Carol Robinson wins 2019 Novozymes Prize and Stein & Moore Award

Vallee Foundation Director and Vallee Visiting Professor (VVP), Professor Dame Carol Robinson... read more
February 2019 News

Ron Vale Named Next Executive Director of Janelia Research Campus and HHMI Vice President

Vallee Visiting Professor Ron Vale, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at... read more
January 2019 News

Xiaowei Zhuang to receive 2019 NAS Award

Xiaowei Zhuang, David B Arnold Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Advanced... read more
January 2019 News

The Pressure's Off

Vallee Scholar Andrew Kruse (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues there and at Duke University... read more
December 2018 News

Four new VVPs appointed

We are delighted to announce the appointment of the following four Vallee Visiting Professors... read more
December 2018 News

People in the News 2018

2018 has been a banner year for groundbreaking research and the recognition it deserves. ... read more
November 2018 News

Ulrich Hartl, VVP in California

F Ulrich Hartl (Director, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried) took his Vallee... read more
August 2018 News

2018 Vallee Scholars Appointed

Boston, MA – September 2018 – In line with The Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation’s goal to... read more
July 2018 News

2018 Vallee Summer Symposium

Imaging in Cell Biology and Neuroscience The 2018 Vallee Foundation... read more
May 2018 News

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Among the recent roll call of distinguished scientists elected to the National Academy of... read more
April 2018 News

Jerrold Meinwald (1927-2018)

The Vallee Foundation joins the family, friends and collaborators of Jerrold Meinwald (VVP 1997... read more
April 2018 News

Two New Academicians

Two Vallee Foundation scientists are among the 213 luminaries newly elected to the American... read more
January 2018 News

Geraldine Seydoux gives second Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecture

Geraldine Seydoux, PhD, Huntington Sheldon Professor in Medical Discovery and Vice Dean for... read more
January 2018 News

2018 Vallee Visiting Professors

Elena Conti and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz have been named the 2018 Vallee Visiting Professors... read more
January 2018 News

Two-Way Street

The Vallee Visiting Professorships open up a two-way street, which was not something Carla Shatz... read more
September 2017 News

2017 Vallee Scholars Appointed

Boston, MA – September 2017 - The Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation is delighted to announce... read more
August 2017 News

Inder Verma at the LMB

Inder Verma, PhD, the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science, Professor and... read more
April 2017 News

David Eisenberg in Cambridge

David Eisenberg’s interest in the structural basis of neurodegeneration and related amyloid... read more
April 2017 News

One Month in Florence

Chris Dobson, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structure Biology at the... read more
February 2017 News

Elaine Fuchs in Spain

Elaine Fuchs (Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at the... read more
December 2016 News

2017 Vallee Visiting Professors Announced

Five internationally recognized leaders in biomedical research have been named the 2017 Vallee... read more
October 2016 News

Carol Robinson takes her VVP at the Rockefeller University

For her first sabbatical in 25 years, Dame Carol Robinson, Royal Society Research Professor at... read more
July 2016 News

Karen Vousden - VVP & New Chief Scientist for Cancer Research UK

Karen Vousden (VVP 2016) is having a busy summer. From the middle of May she spent a month... read more
November 2016 News

Bonnie Bassler gives 2016 Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecture

Bonnie Bassler, PhD, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University... read more
October 2016 News

Susan Lindquist (1949-2016)

The Vallee Foundation joins the family, friends and collaborators of Susan Lindquist (VVP 2015)... read more
September 2016 News

Andreas Strasser spends his VVP in San Francisco

Andreas Strasser, Alan W Harris Personal Chair in Experimental Cancer Biology at the Walter and... read more
September 2016 News

Tyler Jacks and Ari Helenius on sabbatical

Tyler Jacks and Ari Helenius have both taken their month-long Vallee Visiting Professorships... read more
August 2016 News

Vallee Foundation Awards $1,000,000 to Young Investigators in Biomedical Science

Boston, MA – August 2016 - The Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation is delighted to... read more
July 2016 News

2016 Vallee Summer Symposium

The 2016 Vallee Foundation Summer Symposium, organized by Gordon Hammes (VVP 1999, Duke), Jesper... read more
June 2016 News

Welcome to Vallee Voices: An oral history and timeline for the Vallee Foundation.

Bert and Kuggie Vallee had a vision for their eponymous foundation. Lest we forget both... read more
June 2016 News

A Banner Year So Far

2016 is proving to be a banner year for recognition of the groundbreaking work being performed... read more
March 2016 News

Nobel Laureate Aziz Sancar is Vallee Awardee at ASBMB

The Nobel Laureate, Aziz Sancar, Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics,... read more
March 2016 News

2016 Canada Gairdner Awards

Congratulations to Feng Zhang (YIA 2013) and Emmanuelle Charpentier (VVP 2015) for being among... read more
January 2016 News

In the News

David Eisenberg (VVP 2016) and his colleague Sanaz Memarzadeh, both members of the UCLA Jonsson... read more
December 2015 News

VVPs in the News

Stephen Benkovic (VVP 2012), Eberly Professor of Chemistry at Penn State, has been elected a... read more
December 2015 News

2016 Vallee Visiting Professors Announced

Five internationally recognized leaders in biomedical research have been named the 2016 Vallee... read more
November 2015 News

Vallee Visiting Professor Ivan Dikic at Harvard Medical School

Ivan Dikic, Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe... read more
October 2015 News

Lewis Cantley named 2015 AACI Distinguished Scientist

Vallee Foundation Board Member Lewis Cantley will receive the Association of American Cancer... read more
October 2015 News

Vallee Awardee named 2015 Nobel Laureate

Aziz Sancar, Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North... read more
September 2015 News

David Tobin, Zebrafish, and Cryptococcal meningitis

Vallee Young Investigator David Tobin and colleagues at Duke University Medical Center use... read more
September 2015 News

Feng Zhang: Bright Young Mind

Vallee Young Investigator Feng Zhang Is listed among ten early-career scientists Science News... read more
August 2015 News

Letter From the President

It is a great honor for me to succeed Jim Adelstein as the next President of the Bert L and N... read more
August 2015 News

"One of the most fantastic trips of my life."

Bonnie Bassler (HHMI and Princeton University) has recently returned from a month in Berlin... read more
August 2015 News

2015 Vallee Young Investigators Announced

Boston, MA – August 2015 - The Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation is delighted to... read more
July 2015 News

Lindau 2015

Six Vallee Lindau Fellows attended the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this year: Joanne... read more
July 2015 News

2015 Summer Meeting

This summer’s Vallee Foundation Meeting highlighted some of the diverse biomedical research... read more
June 2015 News

VVP Bonnie Bassler shares Shaw Prize

Vallee Visiting Professor Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University) has been awarded the Shaw Prize... read more
May 2015 News

VVP Nick Tonks at Monash University

Nick Tonks (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) is just back from his Vallee Visiting Professor... read more
May 2015 News

Susan Lindquist Elected Foreign Member of the UK's Royal Society

Vallee Visiting Professor Susan Lindquist (MIT, Whitehead Institute, HHMI), who has transformed... read more
March 2015 News

More Awards for Vallee Scientists

Several more members of the Vallee Foundation community are being recognized for their... read more
March 2015 News

David Eisenberg is Recipient of 2015 ASBMB Bert & Natalie Vallee Award

Eisenberg lauded for work on amyloid fiber structure By Umesh D. Wankhade1... read more
March 2015 News

In the News

Vallee Visiting Professor Philip Sharp (VVP 2013) and Young Investigator Feng Zhang (YIA 2013)... read more
January 2015 News

Suzanne Cory gives Australia's Boyer Lectures

Suzanne Cory (VVP 2006), one of Australia's most distinguished molecular biologists, delivered... read more
January 2015 News

In the News

Recent news of members of the Vallee Foundation scientific community include two new Nature... read more
December 2014 News

2015 Vallee Visiting Professors Announced

The Vallee Foundation is delighted to announce the 2015 Vallee Visiting Professors: five... read more
October 2014 News

In the News

This has been a good month for the Vallee Foundation community. Among the Vallee Visiting... read more
September 2014 News

Four Young Investigators Appointed

The Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2014... read more
August 2014 News

Vallee Foundation Symposium: August 4 & 5, 2014, Boston

Protein Homeostasis, Metabolism, and Cancer: Major advances in biomedical research are... read more
July 2014 News

At the 2014 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Some 600 postdoctoral fellows and graduate students joined 37 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or... read more
June 2014 News

VVP News

The Vallee Foundation joins the family, friends and collaborators of Walter Gehring (VVP 2013)... read more
May 2014 News

Letter from the President

Change and continuity. Those are the catchwords for the Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee... read more
April 2014 News

Bert & Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science

The Vallee Foundation is delighted to announce the first recipient of the Bert & Natalie... read more
January 2014 News

Six New Vallee Visiting Professors Appointed

“This excellent concept of providing the resources to spend a month at another Institution is... read more
December 2013 News

Lines of Communication: Recent VVP Travels

During this past year, four senior scientists have taken up their Vallee Visiting Professorships... read more
June 2013 News

First recipients of the Vallee Foundation Young Investigator Awards

The 2013 winners are: Dr Kirsty L Spalding, Senior Researcher in the Department of... read more

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