 He was the Founding Director of the Biophysics Research Laboratory at Harvard (predecessor to the CBBSM), which was established in 1954 by The Rockefeller Foundation.From 1964 to 1989, Dr. Vallee held the Paul C. Cabot Professorship of Biochemistry, and since 1980 he held the Edgar M. Bronfman Distinguished Senior Professorship at Harvard.His primary research was in zinc enzymology, a field he is credited with establishing and for which he received the Raulin Award.