To promote a collegial community of international scientists, to enhance scientific collaboration and communication, and to advance medical education and biomedical research.https://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3mgpp3spw222kCongratulations to Vallee Scholar Madeline Lancaster who has won the 2026 Suffrage Science Award which celebrates the scientific achievements of women in science. https://mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/articles/madeline-lancaster-wins-2026-suffrage-science-award/10 Mar 2026 15:35 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpp3spw222khttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3mgpow43x7c2fVallee Scholar Andela Šarić's group will play a central role in a new research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) to investigate the biology of the germline, i.e., the cells from which egg cells and sperm cells originate. https://ista.ac.at/en/news/egg-cells-sperm-new-emerging-fields-project/10 Mar 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpow43x7c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3mf7y62y4jc2fInteresting news out of Ricardo Mallarino's (Vallee Scolar 2021) lab: https://neurosciencenews.com/agouti-gene-paternal-care-30141/19 Feb 2026 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf7y62y4jc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3mdxp6mzwv22hCongratulations to Vallee Scholar Aashish Manglik who has just been named a Vilcek Prize winner: https://vilcek.org/prizes/prize-recipients/aashish-manglik/03 Feb 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdxp6mzwv22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m6z7lx55es2finteresting article from Vallee Scholar Shigeki Watanabe (Johns Hopkins) providing clues to Parkinson's disease: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251201085855.htm#google_vignette02 Dec 2025 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6z7lx55es2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m6xexs4xt22dCongratulations to VVP Tony Hyman who is to become the next EMBL Director General https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/11/27/anthony-hyman-to-become-next-embl-director-general01 Dec 2025 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6xexs4xt22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m6k4phdjx22wVallee Scholar Shigeki Watanabe and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a “zap-and-freeze” technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell communications in living brain tissue from mice and humans https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2025/11/zap-and-freeze-technique-successfully-used-to-watch-human-brain-cell-communication26 Nov 2025 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6k4phdjx22whttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m6hs7y5hpc2vInteresting research that new light on ancient wolves from Vallee Scholar Pontus Skoglund: https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/unusual-discovery-of-wolf-remains-thousands-of-years-old-on-a-remote-baltic-island-they-lived-with-humans-shared-their-food-and-could-only-have-arrived-by-boat/25 Nov 2025 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6hs7y5hpc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m4qudy6hsc2iAnd Vallee Scholar Michael Yartsev is discovering how bats learn, remember and form social bonds: https://www.hhmi.org/news/bat-research-brain-behavior03 Nov 2025 20:29 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qudy6hsc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m4qu7zzvus2yTwo new papers from Vallee Scholar Johannes Gräff on memory consolidation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02368-y https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hipo.7004103 Nov 2025 20:27 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qu7zzvus2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m3fmkeox2k27and from Vallee Scholar Mackenzie Mathis: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00980-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867424009802%3Fshowall%3Dtrue17 Oct 2025 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3fmkeox2k27https://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m3fmh7j4pc27Interesting study from Vallee Scholar Melissa Harrison: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-uncover-treatment-devastating-childhood-brain.html17 Oct 2025 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3fmh7j4pc27https://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m2mt7fukec2eVallee Scholar Lisa Giocomo reveals how aging affects special memory https://news.ssbcrack.com/study-reveals-how-aging-affects-spatial-memory-in-mice/#google_vignette07 Oct 2025 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2mt7fukec2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m2mt2a2ig22eVallee Scholar Daniel Jarosz becomes first senior associate dean for basic science at Stanford University. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/10/jarosz-dean-basic-research.html07 Oct 2025 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2mt2a2ig22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m2msyconnc2eVallee Scholar Madeline Lancaster appointed Joint Head of the Cell Biology Division at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/madeline-lancaster-appointed-joint-head-of-the-cell-biology-division/07 Oct 2025 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2msyconnc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3m2msv6b6lk2eVallee scholar Rickard Sandberg, professor of Molecular Genetics, member of the Nobel Committee, is interviewed by Sharon Jåma about this year's Nobel prize. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fxn5xm6nbg07 Oct 2025 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2msv6b6lk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lt3hrvtvh227Vallee Scholar Weizhe Hong has a new paper out in Nature which shows a remarkable convergence of neuroscience and artificial intelligence: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/108934603 Jul 2025 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt3hrvtvh227https://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lrxt7oy7ck2aVallee Scholar Bob Datta is on Instagram with an important message about Alzheimer's research https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKzuKjRypYx/?igsh=MWhyb3N1ZWEzbmdkeQ==19 Jun 2025 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrxt7oy7ck2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lr6rkvkivc2xCongratulations to Vallee Fdtn Director Wade Harper (HMS) on $5M+ Fox Fdtn grant for PD research & collab with VVPs Brenda Schulman, Ulrich Hartl (MPI), Judith Frydman (Stanford) among others in international, multidisciplinary Collaborative Research Network (CRN) https://hms.harvard.edu/departments/giving/our-donors/aligning-science-across-parkinsons09 Jun 2025 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr6rkvkivc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lqv2i5qyu22sMany congratulations to Vallee Scholar Tanmay Bharat, Group Leader in the MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, who has been awarded the EMBO Gold Medal for his research in the field of structural microbiology! https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/tanmay-bharat-awarded-embo-gold-medal/05 Jun 2025 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqv2i5qyu22shttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lqauxuwj7222Congratulations to Dr Danelle Devenport (Vallee Scholar 2014), Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton U, who received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies on Tuesday, May 27 https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/05/27/faculty-members-receive-presidents-awards-distinguished-teaching28 May 2025 18:56 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqauxuwj7222https://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lqad7a7qlc2lSo happy for our Vallee Visiting Professor Wolfang Baumeister who has just been named the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine: https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/erc-grantee-wins-shaw-prize-life-science-and-medicine28 May 2025 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqad7a7qlc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lpcsjzf6ek2fResearch teams working with Tyler Jacks (VVP 2016) (MIT) and William Freed-Pastor (Dana-Farber and MIT) have a new article in Science in which they show how a class of proteins expressed in pancreatic cancer cells, could serve as targets for immune cell therapy. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk348716 May 2025 19:52 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpcsjzf6ek2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lpcsfmlet22fFeng Zhang (Vallee Scholar 2013) and his team at the McGovern and Broad Institutes have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme they found in bacteria into an efficient, programmable editor of human DNA. See their paper in Nature Biotch https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02655-316 May 2025 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpcsfmlet22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lpcsck7ck22fElena Conti, PhD (Vallee Visiting Prof 2019), Director, MPI of Biochemistry in Martinsried, shares this year’s prestigious Jung Prize for Medicine with Jorn Piel, MD, ETH Zurich. https://thevalleefoundation.org/news/elena-conti-wins-jung-prize-medicine16 May 2025 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpcsck7ck22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lp2momvpus2pCongratulations to Feng Zhang (Vallee Scholar 2013) (Broad Inst, MIT, HHMI Investigator) who received an honorary doctorate from Duke University on Sunday! https://today.duke.edu/2025/04/duke-award-three-honorary-degrees-2025-commencement-ceremony13 May 2025 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp2momvpus2phttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lnv242pvwk2nChris Mason (Vallee Scholar 2014) at Weil Cornell Medicine is one of the PIs seeking to catalog the normal human virome, the immense ecosystem of viruses that lives in and on us. https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/04/a-vast-new-view-of-viruses28 Apr 2025 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnv242pvwk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/valleefoundation.bsky.social/post/3lmzg2ilik22wVallee Scholar (2021) Ricardo Mallarino (Princeton) has been using the sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) to investigate immunological defense strategies. Check out his recent paper in Science https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads6359.17 Apr 2025 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:sutdb7lyll4cesgzbbbme5aq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmzg2ilik22w