The Rita Allen Foundation has awarded millions of dollars in grants to our Scholars. The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program concentrates on young leaders in bio-medical research who are advancing our understanding of the human condition. Through our Scholars, we embrace innovative research with above average risk and groundbreaking possibilities. We are proud of the over 100 Scholars, including a Nobel Laureate, who have received our financial assistance. Our Scholars are nominated by premier research institutions and then selected by the Rita Allen Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee. Individuals chosen and their affiliated institutions receive grants of up to $110,000 annually, for a maximum of five years. Some of the Guiding Principles for selection include: attention to innovation, focus on areas of global concern, opportunities for lasting outcomes, collaborations, and a demonstration of leadership and learning potential. Investment in our Scholars helps us support transformative ideas in their earliest stages.
| Years | ||
| 1976-80 | James B. Lewis | Cold Spring Harbor |
| 1976-78 | Harold M. Weintraub | Princeton & Hutchinson Cancer Center |
| 1976-79 | Robert A. Weinberg | MIT |
| 1978-82 | Kathleen M. Foley | Cornell Medical |
| 1978-81,86 | William W. Hall | Rockefeller University |
| 1978-79 | Thomas P. Maniatis | Cal Tech |
| 1978-82 | Graham C. Walker | MIT |
| 1979-83 | John Condeelis | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| 1979-83 | Stephen A. Udem | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| 1979-83 | Paul H. Patterson | Harvard Medical |
| 1983-87 | Bruce W. Stillman | Cold Spring Harbor |
| 1983-84 | Luis P. Villarreal | Univ. of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 1983-86 | Barbara J. Wold | Cal Tech |
| 1984-85 | Thomas M. Jessell | Harvard Medical |
| 1984-85 | Carl F. Nathan | Rockefeller University |
| 1984-88 | H. Earl Ruley | MIT |
| 1985-89 | Bruce P. Bean | Harvard Medical |
| 1985-89 | Brent H. Cochran | MIT |
| 1985-88 | Stanley M. Goldin | Harvard Medical |
| 1985-89 | Winship Herr | Cold Spring Harbor |
| 1985-87 | Carl S. Parker | Cal Tech |
| 1986-90 | Ronald D.C. McKay | MIT |
| 1986-90 | Adrienne A. Brian | Univ. of California, San Diego |
| 1986-90 | Charles D. Gilbert | Rockefeller University |
| 1988-92 | Gilbert Chu | Stanford Medical Center |
| 1988-92 | Stephen L. Hauser | Univ. of California, San Francisco, Harvard |
| 1988-92 | John D. Levine | Univ. of California, San Francisco |
| 1989-93 | Andrew Z. Fire | Carnegie Institute of Washington |
| 1989-93 | Nouria Hernandez | Cold Spring Harbor |
| 1989-92 | Ronald D. Vale | Univ. of California, San Francisco |
| 1990-91 | Peter S. Kim | Whitehead Institute |
| 1990-94 | Greg Lemke | The Salk Institute |
| 1990-94 | Marilyn D. Resh | Princeton & Memorial Sloan-Kettering |
| 1991-95 | Jeffrey D. Macklis | Harvard Medical |
| 1991-95 | David O. Morgan | Univ. of California, San Francisco |
| 1991-95 | Elizabeth A. Komives | Univ. of California, San Diego |
| 1993-97 | Jun Liu | MIT |
| 1993-97 | Stephen L. Mayo | Cal Tech |
| 1993-97 | Christopher Walsh | Harvard Medical |
| 1994-98 | Michael O. Hengartner | Cold Spring Harbor |
| 1994-98 | Joachim J. Li | Univ. of California, San Francisco |
| 1994-97 | James R. Williamson | MIT & Scripps Research Institute |
| 1995-99 | Bruce A. Edgar | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center |
| 1995-99 | Stephen P. Bell | MIT |
| 1995-98 | Titia de Lange | Rockefeller University |
| 1996-99 | Andrew Chess | MIT |
| 1996-99 | Robert K. Ho | Princeton |
| 1996-99 | Li-Huei Tsai | Harvard Medical |
| 1998-00 | Peter Mombaerts | Rockefeller University |
| 1998-00 | Jon S. Thorson | Sloan-Kettering Institute |
| 1998-00 | Frank J. Hsu | Yale School of Medicine |
| 1998-00 | Ilaria Rebay | MIT-Whitehead Institute |
| 1999-01 | Susan M. Dymecki | Harvard Medical |
| 1999-01 | K. Christopher Garcia | Stanford School of Medicine |
| 1999-01 | Scott W. Lowe | Cold Spring Harbor |
| 1999-01 | Yigong Shi | Princeton |
| 2000-02 | Yukiko Goda | Univ. of CA, San Diego & Medical Research Council |
| 2000-02 | Michael P. Rout | Rockefeller University |
| 2000-02 | Samuel Wang | Princeton |
| 2000-02 | Gregory J. Hannon | Cold Spring Harbor |
| 2001-03 | Daniel L. Minor, Jr. | Univ. of CA., San Francisco |
| 2001-03 | Steven Artandi | Stanford University Medical Center |
| 2001-03 | Adrian R. Ferre-D’Amare | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
| 2001-03 | Oliver Hobert | Columbia University |
| 2001-03 | David C. Chan | Cal Tech |
| 2002-03 | Mark Henkemeyer | Univ. of Texas, SW Medical Center |
| 2002-03 | William Talbot | Stanford |
| 2002-04 | Xianxin Hua | Univ. of PA Medical School |
| 2002-03 | Hao Wu | Cornell/Weill Medical School |
| 2003-05 | Christopher Lima | Cornell/Weill Medical College |
| 2003-05 | Ajay Chawla | Stanford |
| 2003-05 | Shai Shaham | Rockefeller University |
| 2003-05 | Leslyn A. Hanakahi | Johns Hopkins |
| 2004-07 | Laura A. Johnston | Columbia University |
| 2004-07 | Senthil K. Muthuswamy | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| 2004-07 | David M. Sabatini | Whitehead Institute |
| 2004-05 | David A. Tuveson | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2004-07 | Zheng Zhou | Baylor College of Medicine |
| 2005-09 | Hilary A. Coller* | Princeton University |
| 2005-09 | Elsa R. Flores | MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| 2005-08 | Johanna Joyce | Memorial Sloan-Kettering |
| 2005-09 | Joel L. Pomerantz | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| 2006-10 | Peter W. Reddien* | MIT-Whitehead Institute |
| 2006-10 | Joshua T. Mendell | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| 2006-10 | Adrian Salic | Harvard Medical School |
| 2007-10 | Michael T. Hemann | MIT Center for Cancer Research |
| 2007-10 | Tae Hoon Kim | Yale University |
| 2007-10 | Lloyd C. Trotman | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| 2007-10 | Mark J. Zylka * | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2008-11 | E. Alejandro Sweet-Cordero | Stanford University Medical School |
| 2008-11 | Emmanuelle A. Passegue | University of California, San Francisco |
| 2008-11 | Ian J. Davis | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2008-11 | Paul Chang | MIT Cancer Research Center |
| 2008-11 | Ming Li | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| 2008- | Steven J. Altschuler * | University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center |
| 2009- | Aaron D. Gitler | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2009- | Ben Black | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2009- | Jeremy Dittman | Weill Cornell Medical College |
| 2009- | Samara Reck-Peterson * | Harvard Medical School |
| 2009- | Daniel Stetson | University of Washington School of Medicine |
| 2009- | Sohail Tavazoie | Rockefeller University |
| 2009- | Steven Prescott | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2009- | Theodore Price | University of Arizona |
| 2010- | Randy Bruno | Columbia University |
| 2010- | Maitreya Dunham | University of Washington |
| 2010- | David Prober * | California Institute of Technology |
| 2010- | Agata Smogorzewska | Rockefeller University |
| 2010- | Ye Zheng | Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| 2010- | Diana Bautista | Berkeley |
| 2010- | Seena Ajit | Drexel University |
| 2011- | Briana Burton* | Harvard University |
| 2011- | Elissa Hallem | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2011- | Rahul Kohli | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2011- | Michael Lin | Stanford University |
| 2011- | Axel Nimmerjahn | Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| 2011- | Edgar Romero-Sandoval | Dartmouth Hitchcock |
| 2011- | Yuanxiang Tao | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| 2012- | Sreekanth Chalasani | Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| 2012- | Christopher Hammell * | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| 2012- | Michael Jankowski | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center |
| 2012- | Xin Liu | UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| 2012- | Michael Long | NYU School of Medicine |
| 2012- | Luciano Marraffini | The Rockefeller University |
| 2012- | Sarah Ross | University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
| *Milton E. Cassel Scholar | ||