The Vallee Scholar Awards provide unrestricted funding for exceptional national and international early career biomedical researchers. Grants of $400,000 are awarded, to be spent over a period of four years. The committee considers each applicant's career trajectory and their commitment to fostering a diverse work environment before making the final selection.

David joined the Crick as a Group Leader in 2020, where he heads the RNA Virus Replication Laboratory. His group is interested broadly in RNA viruses: how they replicate and cause disease; how immunity develops and in turn influences viral replication; and how the unique properties of RNA itself contributes to these processes. David’s group explores these processes both in vitro at the atomic and cellular levels, and in vivo with animal models and human populations as part of the Crick/UCLH Legacy Study and the West Africa, West Indies, West London (WWW) Consortium.

A huge thanks to everyone at the Crick – especially to those in our group, the Legacy Study, and all the fantastic STPs – who have made the past five years so exciting!

David LV Bauer

Congratulations to David!