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 $400,000 – 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.
- Alvin and Esta Star Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles
- Assistant Professor, Deptment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology , and Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University
- Assistant Professor and Group Leader, Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna
- Research Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 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
- Associate 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
- Associate 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
- Associate Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and of Developmental BiologyStanford University
- Associate Professor of Microbiology and ImmunologyCarver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
- 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
- Shirley M Tilghman 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
- Professor of Adipocyte Biology, 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