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 $300,000 – 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 ten 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, Royal Society / Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale FellowSir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
- Assistant ProfessorUniversity of California, San Francisco
- Assistant Professor of NeurobiologyHarvard Medical School
- Associate Professor of Molecular BiologyPrinceton University
- Assistant Professor of NeurobiologyStanford University School of Medicine
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical EngineeringDuke University
- Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering, Division of Biology and Biological EngineeringCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- Assistant ProfessorBrain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland
- Assistant Professor of Developmental and Stem Cell BiologyInstitut Pasteur, Paris
- Assistant ProfessorMassachusetts Institute of Technology
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biomolecular ChemistryUniversity of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
- Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and of NeurobiologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
- Assistant ProfessorWeizmann Institute of Science
- Assistant Professor,, Departments of Chemical & Systems Biology and Developmental BiologyStanford University
- Assistant ProfessorInstitute of Biochemistry, University of Zurich
- Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Affiliate Member of the Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic BiologyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Associate Professor of Molecular BiologyPrinceton University
- Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular PharmacologyHarvard Medical School
- 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 of Physiology and Biophysics, Neuroscience, and Computational Genomics, WorldQuant Foundation Research ScholarWeill Cornell Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Department of NeuroscienceUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
- Assistant Professor of Genetics and Developmental BiologyWashington University School of Medicine, St Louis
- Professor of MicrobiologyUniversity of Jena
- Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley
- Emmy Noether Research Group Leader; Group LeaderHelmholtz Zentrum, München; Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
- Professor of Molecular GeneticsKarolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
- Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
- Group Leader of the Ancient Genomics LaboratoryFrancis Crick Institute
- Assistant Professor, Department of Cell & Molecular BiologyKarolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and MicrobiologyDuke University Medical Center
- Assistant ProfessorPrinceton University
- Assistant Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental BiologyYale University
- Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering,, Helen Wills Neuroscience InstituteUniversity of California, Berkeley
- 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
- Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and GenomicsThe Rockefeller University