Viviana Gradinaru, Assistant professor of biology and biological engineering, Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, and Director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech has been named a Vallee Scholar by the Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation. She is one of five scientists chosen from an international pool of nominees. The scholarship provides $250,000 in funding to further the research of exceptional early-career scientists.
