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