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Eddy Fischer Fellowship Fund for Lindau Nobel Meetings

Every year, around 30 Nobel Laureates from the fields of physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry and the economic sciences spend a week in the Lake Constance area to meet the next generation of leading scientists at a meeting organized by the Council and Foundation for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. In honor of former Vallee Foundation Board Member Eddy Fischer (1920-2021), the Vallee Foundation has helped gifted, motivated and productive young scientists to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in the life sciences.

Through his long and close friendship with Bert Vallee, Eddy Fischer became an original member of the Board of Directors of the Vallee Foundation and regularly participated in Foundation events.  He and his collaborator, Edwin G Krebs, are best known for their discovery of reversible protein phosphorylation, a fundamental regulatory mechanism in cells, for which they received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  Eddy will also be remembered for his insatiable curiosity, encyclopedic memory, urbanity, and generosity.  His enthusiasm, wit, and musical prowess charmed all he met.  He particularly cared about sharing his experience with young scientists and learning from them in return.  Income from the Eddy Fischer Fellowship Fund at the Lindau-Nobel Foundation will support young people attending Lindau-Nobel Laureate meetings in Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine, as well as the interdisciplinary meetings. 

63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2013: Chemistry

64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2014: Physiology or Medicine

65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2015: Interdisciplinary: Physiology/Medicine, Physics, Chemistry

67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2017: Chemistry

68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2018: Physiology and Medicine

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  • Junior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford
    University of Oxford
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Witwatersrand
    University of Witwatersrand
  • Doctoral student, Technical University of Munich
    Technical University of Munich
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Life Science Institute, University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Cellular & Molecular Biology, Uppsala University
    Uppsala University
  • HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School
    Harvard Medical School
  • Leverhulme Research Fellow, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool
    University of Liverpool
  • Postdoctoral fellow, King's College London
    King's College, London
  • Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, University College London
    University College London
  • Doctoral student, Weizmann Institute of Sciences
    Weizmann Institute of Sciences
  • HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
    Medical Research Council, Cambridge
  • Research Scientist, University of Zimbabwe
    University of Zimbambwe
  • Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Freie Universität, Berlin
    Freie Universität, Berlin
  • Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH & MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge
    National Institutes of Health & MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge
  • Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Research UK London
    Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute
  • HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering, Harvard University
    Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering, Harvard University
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
    Korea Institute for Advanced Study
  • Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, University College London
    University College London
  • Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh
    University of Edinburgh
  • California Institute of Technology