Recognizing that outstanding, young, independent investigators are the source for future advances in the biomedical sciences and of their need for flexible, unrestricted funding to conduct their research, the Vallee Scholars program makes grants of $340,000 – to be spent over a period of four years – to junior faculty carrying out basic biomedical research. This award is available only to investigators who have been nominated by institutions that have been selected by the Vallee Foundation Board of Directors. One nomination will be accepted per institution. The candidate must have received his/her PhD, MD, or other professional degree, within twelve years of the application deadline and, by the same date, have been in an independent research position (tenure track or equivalent) for six years or fewer.
The Vallee Foundation welcomes outstanding scientists regardless of race or gender but is mindful of the lack of diversity within the scientific research community as a whole and is committed to furthering the careers of historically under-represented minorities.
Group Leader, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST)
Head of the Evolutionary Cell Biology and Evolution of Morphogenesis StructureInstitut Pasteur
Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford
Group Leader, Gene Centre, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute, London
Jonathan M Nelson Family Associate Professor of Neurosciences & Behavior, Head of the Laboratory of Neural Dynamics & Cognition, Rockefeller University
Assistant Professor & Group LeaderMax Perutz Labs, University of Vienna
Assistant Professor, Brain Mind InstituteSwiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
Assistant ProfessorInstitute of Science and Technology, Austria
Assistant Professor of Integrative BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor, Department of Cell BiologyJohns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor of ChemistryCalifornia Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School
Group Leader in Cell Biology Division, Medical Research Council Laborary of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Tenure-Rack ProfessorGene Center and the Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Professor of Biological Chemistry and of NeurobiologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology,, Member of the Meyer Cancer Center,, Core Member of the New York Genome Center,Weill Cornell Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of NeuroscienceUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Group Leader of the Ancient Genomics LaboratoryFrancis Crick Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering,, Helen Wills Neuroscience InstituteUniversity of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and GenomicsThe Rockefeller University
Assistant ProfessorUniversity of California, San Francisco
Associate Professor of NeurobiologyStanford University School of Medicine
Assistant ProfessorBrain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland
Professor of MicrobiologyUniversity of Jena
Associate ProfessorPrinceton University
Programme LeaderMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Assistant ProfessorMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental BiologyYale University
Lois and Victor Troendle Professor, Director, Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Division of Biology and Biological EngineeringCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Assistant ProfessorWeizmann Institute of Science
Assistant Professor,, Departments of Chemical & Systems Biology and Developmental BiologyStanford University
Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Affiliate Member of the Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic BiologyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Developmental BiologyWashington University School of Medicine, St Louis
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical EngineeringDuke University
Associate Professor, Department of Biomolecular ChemistryUniversity of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Associate Professor of Molecular BiologyPrinceton University
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular PharmacologyHarvard Medical School
Assistant ProfessorInstitute of Biochemistry, University of Zurich
Emmy Noether Research Group Leader; Group LeaderHelmholtz Zentrum, München; Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
Professor of Molecular GeneticsKarolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Professor of NeurobiologyHarvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Molecular BiologyPrinceton University
Assistant Professor of Developmental and Stem Cell BiologyInstitut Pasteur, Paris
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Neuroscience, and Computational Genomics, WorldQuant Foundation Research ScholarWeill Cornell Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell & Molecular BiologyKarolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and MicrobiologyDuke University Medical Center
WM Keck Career Development Professor of Biomedical Engineering, MIT, James & Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience, MIT, Principal Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, The Broad Institute, Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, HHMI InvestigatorMassachusetts Institute of Technology