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The Vallee Foundation

The Vallee Foundation was established in 1996 by Bert and Kuggie Vallee to foster originality, creativity, and leadership within biomedical scientific research and medical education.

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To promote a collegial community of international scientists, to enhance scientific collaboration and communication, and to advance medical education and biomedical research.
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August 2017

Inder Verma at the LMB

Inder Verma spent his month's VVP sabbatical at the LMB, Cambridge, UK, with KJ Patel, Alan Fersht (VVP 2008), and Venki Ramakrishnan in June/July.
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April 2017

David Eisenberg in Cambridge

David’s interest in the structural basis of neurodegeneration and related amyloid diseases took him to Cambridge for his Vallee Visiting Professorship.
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April 2017

One Month in Florence

Christopher Dobson (University of Cambridge) spent his VVP sabbatical in Italy working with Fabrizio Chiti at the University of Florence.
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February 2017

Elaine Fuchs in Spain

Elaine Fuchs spent her Vallee Visiting Professorship sabbatical at the IRB in Barcelona.
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December 2016

2017 Vallee Visiting Professors Announced

http://www.thevalleefoundation.org/programs/vvpKay Davies, F Ulrich Hartl, Brenda Schulman, Inder Verma and Xiaowei Zhuang have been named the 2017 Vallee Visiting Professors.
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The Vallee Visiting Professor program fulfills one of the core missions of the Foundation, which is to enable senior scientists to explore new directions, through spending time away from their own laboratories and administrative responsibilities to conduct research, exchange scientific views, and establish or strengthen collaborative relationships with a biomedical research institute anywhere in the world. We welcome our new VVPs to the Vallee Foundation community and look forward to working with them in the years to come.
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November 2016

Bonnie Bassler gives 2016 Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecture

Bonnie Bassler gave a lively talk on the molecular mechanisms that bacteria use for intercellular communication as the inaugural
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October 2016

Susan Lindquist (1949-2016)

The Vallee Foundation mourns the untimely death of Susan Lindquist (VVP 2015).
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October 2016

Carol Robinson takes her VVP at the Rockefeller University

For her first sabbatical in 25 years, Professor Dame Carol Robinson spent September 2016 at the Rockefeller University, hosted by Professor Barry Chait in the Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry.
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September 2016

Andreas Strasser spends his VVP in San Francisco

Andreas Strasser, Alan W Harris Personal Chair in Experimental Cancer Biology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, has been spending several months at Genentech in San Francisco this year, partly sponsored by his Vallee Visiting Professorship.
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September 2016

Tyler Jacks and Ari Helenius on sabbatical

Tyler Jacks and Ari Helenius have both taken their month-long Vallee Visiting Professorships this year.
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August 2016

Vallee Foundation Awards $1,000,000 to Young Investigators in Biomedical Science

In recognition of their future promise, originality, innovation and pioneering work in the biomedical sciences, Yiyang Gong (Duke University), Melissa Harrison (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Alexei Korennykh (Princeton University), and Andrew Kruse (Harvard Medical School) have been chosen as the 2016 Vallee Foundation Young Investigator Awardees.
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July 2016

2016 Vallee Summer Symposium

In the spirit of fostering collaboration among scientists, the June 2016 Symposium brought together VVPs and Young Investigators in Rapallo.
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July 2016

Karen Vousden - VVP & New Chief Scientist for Cancer Research UK

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June 2016

Welcome to Vallee Voices: An oral history and timeline for the Vallee Foundation.

“Bert had a really rather grand vision of what science and scientists should be like…” Find out what it was at Vallee Voices.
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June 2016

A Banner Year So Far

2016 is proving to be a banner year for recognition of the groundbreaking work being performed by some of the outstanding scientists associated with the Bert & Kuggie Vallee Foundation. Here are just a few:
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March 2016

Nobel Laureate Aziz Sancar is Vallee Awardee at ASBMB

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March 2016

2016 Canada Gairdner Awards

Congratulations to Feng Zhang (YIA 2013) and Emmanuelle Charpentier (VVP 2015) for being among this year's Canada Gairdner Awardees!
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January 2016

In the News

David Eisenberg (VVP 2016) and his colleague Sanaz Memarzadeh, both members of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, have developed a promising new method to treat gynecologic tumors which they describe online in Cancer Cell. The approach focuses on the p53 protein. Read more
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December 2015

VVPs in the News

Stephen Benkovic is elected to the NAI and Ivan Dikic is part of an €11 M German Research Foundation grant.
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December 2015

2016 Vallee Visiting Professors Announced

Emmanuele Charpentier, David Eisenberg, Elaine Fuchs, Carol Robinson and Carla Shatz have been named 2016 VVPs.
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The Visiting Vallee Professor program fulfills one of the core missions of the Foundation, which is to enable senior scientists to explore new directions, through spending time away from their own laboratories and administrative responsibilities to conduct research, exchange scientific views, and establish or strengthen collaborative relationships with a biomedical research institute anywhere in the world. We welcome our new Visiting Vallee Professors to the Vallee Foundation community and look forward to working with them in the years to come.
November 2015

Vallee Visiting Professor Ivan Dikic at Harvard Medical School

Ivan Dikic, who has spent his career understanding the mechanisms of ubiquitin signaling, has recently spent a month at HMS.
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October 2015

Lewis Cantley named 2015 AACI Distinguished Scientist

Vallee Foundation Board Member Lewis Cantley to receive the AACI Distinguished Scientist Award
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October 2015

Vallee Awardee named 2015 Nobel Laureate

Aziz Sancar, 2016 Vallee ASBMB Awardee, has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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September 2015

David Tobin, Zebrafish, and Cryptococcal meningitis

David Tobin (YIA 2013) uses transparent zebrafish to watch Cryptococcal meningitis take over the brain.
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September 2015

Feng Zhang: Bright Young Mind

Vallee Young Investigator Feng Zhang is among ten early-career scientists on their way to more widespread acclaim. Read more
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August 2015

Letter From the President

It is a great honor for me to succeed Jim Adelstein as the next President of the Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation.
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August 2015

"One of the most fantastic trips of my life."

Vallee Visiting Professor Bonnie Bassler (HHMI and Princeton University) has recently returned from a month in Berlin.
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August 2015

2015 Vallee Young Investigators Announced

The Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2015 Young Investigator Awards. Martin Jinek (Zurich), Fabiana Perocchi (Munich), and Rickard Sandberg (Stockholm) were chosen from a pool of national and international early career researchers and are among the most creative and productive stars in their field.
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July 2015

Lindau 2015

Six Vallee Lindau Fellows attended the 65^th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this year.
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July 2015

2015 Summer Meeting

This year's Meeting highlighted some of the diverse biomedical research being undertaken by scientists affiliated with the Vallee Foundation.
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June 2015

VVP Bonnie Bassler shares Shaw Prize

with E Peter Greenberg for their discovery of quorum sensing..
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May 2015

VVP Nick Tonks at Monash University

Nick Tonks has just spent his VVP sabbatical in Melbourne, Australia.
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May 2015

Susan Lindquist Elected Foreign Member of the UK's Royal Society

VVP Susan Lindquist has been elected a Foreign Member of the UK’s Royal Society.
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Susan Lindquist, Member, Whitehead Institute and Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, discovered the functions of heat-shock proteins, identified prions as conduits of protein-based inheritance, and pioneered new platforms for neurodegenerative disease. She established the key role of the heat-shock proteins in tumor progression and the evolution of fungal drug resistance. She discovered that protein-folding buffers and releases genetic variation in response to environmental stress, providing the first plausible explanation for rapid bursts of evolution.
March 2015

More Awards for Vallee Scientists

Several more members of the Vallee Foundation community are being recognized for their outstanding work this month:

Lewis Cantley for his discovery of an enzyme called phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K); Bonnie Bassler, whose work focuses on the molecular mechanisms that bacteria use for intercellular communication; and Feng Zhang for his groundbreaking research using CRISPR-Cas9.
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March 2015

David Eisenberg is Recipient of 2015 ASBMB Bert & Natalie Vallee Award

David Eisenberg (UCLA, HHMI) is lauded for his work on amyloid fiber structure.
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"How nice it is to receive an award named for a scientist whose lectures I heard when I was an undergraduate. But my name as the sole recipient masks the fact that the recognized work is the product of more than a dozen scientists in our group. Perhaps more than most laboratories, we work as a group, with diverse backgrounds and skills combining to produce each finding. We tackle hard problems, gaining confidence from each other that we can overcome the obstacles that we invariably encounter along the path. Much of my pleasure in science comes from our cooperative mode of scientific discovery. –David Eisenberg ------------------------------------ Eisenberg received his award at the ASBMB annual meeting on March 30, 2015 in Boston. His award lecture was on “The amyloid state of proteins.”
March 2015

In the News

Congratulations to Phillip Sharp for being named the 2015 Othmer Gold Medalist. Also in the news: Feng Zhang and Christopher Mason.
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January 2015

Suzanne Cory gives Australia's Boyer Lectures

Suzanne Cory, one of Australia's most distinguished molecular biologists, delivered the 2014 Boyer Lectures
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The four lectures cover Suzanne Cory's reflections on where medical science has come from, where it is going to, the importance of scientific research and development to the economy, the environment, and the brain drain.
January 2015

In the News

Research from the labs of David Tobin (YIA 2013), Feng Zhang (YIA 2013) and Andreas Strasser (VVP 2014).
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December 2014

2015 Vallee Visiting Professors Announced

The Vallee Foundation is delighted to announce the 2015 Vallee Visiting Professors: five internationally recognized leaders in biomedical research, well known by their scientific breakthroughs and discoveries, their distinguished achievements, and their positions of international leadership.
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October 2014

In the News

Among the Vallee Visiting Professors in the news recently are Jerrold Meinwald (VVP 1997)
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September 2014

Four Young Investigators Appointed

The Vallee Foundation is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2014 Young Investigator Awards.
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August 2014

Vallee Foundation Symposium: August 4 & 5, 2014, Boston

Major advances in biomedical research are being made in understanding disease mechanisms
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July 2014

At the 2014 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Some 600 postdoctoral fellows and graduate students joined 37 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine for the 67^th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Lake Constance at the end of June. Four of these young scientists were sponsored by the Vallee Foundation.
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June 2014

VVP News

Walter Gehring sadly passes away, while Torsten Wiesel celebrates his 90th birthday and John Collier retires.
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May 2014

Letter from the President

Change and continuity. Those are the catchwords for the Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation this past year.
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April 2014

Bert & Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science

Michael Gottesman is named the first recipient of the Vallee Award at the 2014 ASBMB meeting.

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January 2014

Six New Vallee Visiting Professors Appointed

Bonnie Bassler, Ivan Dikic, Christopher Dobson, Tyler Jacks, Thomas Shenk and Andreas Strasser will each have the opportunity to spend a sabbatical month at another institution anywhere in the world. These short-term visits have proven to be a great success for planning research, conducting experiments, and establishing meaningful relationships, nationally and internationally.
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December 2013

Lines of Communication: Recent VVP Travels

During this past year, four senior scientists have taken up their Vallee Visiting Professorships and travelled to Stockholm, La Jolla, and Boston for a month of stimulating conversation, hands-on research, experience with new technology, and the time to re-energize away from their normal daily responsibilities. Host institutes warmly welcomed the VVPs, introduced them to colleagues and students, and arranged for them to give Vallee Lectures to their scientific communities.

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June 2013

First recipients of the Vallee Foundation Young Investigator Awards

The 2013 winners are: Dr Kirsty L Spalding, Senior Researcher in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at the Karolinska Institutet; Dr David Tobin, Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University Medical Center; and Dr Feng Zhang, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The Vallee Foundation

The Vallee Foundation was established in 1996 by Bert and Kuggie Vallee to foster originality, creativity, and leadership within biomedical scientific research and medical education. read more

To promote a collegial community of international scientists, to enhance scientific collaboration and communication, and to advance medical education and biomedical research.

August 2017

2017 Vallee Visiting Professors Announced

Five internationally recognized leaders in biomedical research have been named the 2017 Vallee Visiting Professors. read more

The Vallee Visiting Professor program fulfills one of the core missions of the Foundation, which is to enable senior scientists to explore new directions, through spending time away from their own laboratories and administrative responsibilities to conduct research, exchange scientific views, and establish or strengthen collaborative relationships with a biomedical research institute anywhere in the world. We welcome our new VVPs to the Vallee Foundation community and look forward to working with them in the years to come.

November 2016

Bonnie Bassler gives 2016 Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecture

October 2016

Susan Lindquist (1949-2016)

October 2016

Carol Robinson takes her VVP at the Rockefeller University

September 2016

Andreas Strasser spends his VVP in San Francisco

September 2016

Tyler Jacks and Ari Helenius on sabbatical

Tyler Jacks and Ari Helenius have both taken their month-long Vallee Visiting Professorships this year. read more

August 2016

Vallee Foundation Awards $1,000,000 to Young Investigators in Biomedical Science

July 2016

2016 Vallee Summer Symposium

July 2016

Karen Vousden - VVP & New Chief Scientist for Cancer Research UK

June 2016

Welcome to Vallee Voices: An oral history and timeline for the Vallee Foundation.

June 2016

A Banner Year So Far

2016 is proving to be a banner year for recognition of the groundbreaking work being performed by some of the outstanding scientists associated with the Bert & Kuggie Vallee Foundation. Here are just a few: read more

March 2016

Nobel Laureate Aziz Sancar is Vallee Awardee at ASBMB

March 2016

2016 Canada Gairdner Awards

Congratulations to Feng Zhang (YIA 2013) and Emmanuelle Charpentier (VVP 2015) for being among this year's Canada Gairdner Awardees! They have been recognized for their work developing CRISPR-CAS as a genome editing tool for eukaryotic cells. read more

January 2016

In the News

December 2015

VVPs in the News

December 2015

2016 Vallee Visiting Professors Announced

Five internationally recognized leaders in biomedical research have been named the 2016 Vallee Visiting Professors. read more

The Visiting Vallee Professor program fulfills one of the core missions of the Foundation, which is to enable senior scientists to explore new directions, through spending time away from their own laboratories and administrative responsibilities to conduct research, exchange scientific views, and establish or strengthen collaborative relationships with a biomedical research institute anywhere in the world. We welcome our new Visiting Vallee Professors to the Vallee Foundation community and look forward to working with them in the years to come.

November 2015

Vallee Visiting Professor Ivan Dikic at Harvard Medical School

October 2015

Lewis Cantley named 2015 AACI Distinguished Scientist

October 2015

Vallee Awardee named 2015 Nobel Laureate

September 2015

David Tobin, Zebrafish, and Cryptococcal meningitis

Vallee Young Investigator David Tobin and colleagues at Duke University Medical Center use transparent zebrafish larvae to watch in real time as Cryptococcal meningitis takes over the brain. read more

September 2015

Feng Zhang: Bright Young Mind

August 2015

Letter From the President

August 2015

"One of the most fantastic trips of my life."

Bonnie Bassler (HHMI and Princeton University) has recently returned from a month in Berlin where she spent her VVP sabbatical at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. read more

August 2015

2015 Vallee Young Investigators Announced

July 2015

Lindau 2015

July 2015

2015 Summer Meeting

June 2015

VVP Bonnie Bassler shares Shaw Prize

May 2015

VVP Nick Tonks at Monash University

May 2015

Susan Lindquist Elected Foreign Member of the UK's Royal Society

Susan Lindquist, Member, Whitehead Institute and Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, discovered the functions of heat-shock proteins, identified prions as conduits of protein-based inheritance, and pioneered new platforms for neurodegenerative disease. She established the key role of the heat-shock proteins in tumor progression and the evolution of fungal drug resistance. She discovered that protein-folding buffers and releases genetic variation in response to environmental stress, providing the first plausible explanation for rapid bursts of evolution.

March 2015

More Awards for Vallee Scientists

Several more members of the Vallee Foundation community are being recognized for their outstanding work this month: read more

March 2015

David Eisenberg is Recipient of 2015 ASBMB Bert & Natalie Vallee Award

Eisenberg lauded for work on amyloid fiber structure By Umesh D. Wankhade1 read more

"How nice it is to receive an award named for a scientist whose lectures I heard when I was an undergraduate. But my name as the sole recipient masks the fact that the recognized work is the product of more than a dozen scientists in our group. Perhaps more than most laboratories, we work as a group, with diverse backgrounds and skills combining to produce each finding. We tackle hard problems, gaining confidence from each other that we can overcome the obstacles that we invariably encounter along the path. Much of my pleasure in science comes from our cooperative mode of scientific discovery. –David Eisenberg ------------------------------------ Eisenberg received his award at the ASBMB annual meeting on March 30, 2015 in Boston. His award lecture was on “The amyloid state of proteins.”

March 2015

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