The Institut Pasteur
The Institut Pasteur is a private, non-profit foundation. Its mission is to help prevent and treat diseases, mainly those of infectious origin, through research, teaching, and public health initiatives.
The Institut Pasteur is a private, non-profit foundation. Its mission is to help prevent and treat diseases, mainly those of infectious origin, through research, teaching, and public health initiatives.
Our history
"Chance favors invention only for minds prepared for discoveries by patient study and persevering efforts."
The Institut Pasteur develops many major international projects in partnership with the main international scientific authorities such as the World Health Organization, and many research institutions, foundations, universities and other private actors worldwide. In addition, the Institut Pasteur is at the heart of the Institut Pasteur International Network, 32 institutes around the world linked by missions of research, public health and education.
With an effective management policy and successful response strategy, the Management, Board of Directors and General Meeting
board provide the impetus for the Institut Pasteur’s research.
Through its proceedings, the Board of Governors settles Institut Pasteur matters. Its 21 members meet at least four times a year and attend the proceedings of the General Meeting but do not take part in voting.
The General Meeting approves the Board of Directors’ Annual Report on Institut Pasteur activity, elects 16 members to the Board of Directors and votes on changes to the articles of association upon proposal by the Board of Directors.
The Scientific Council advises the President of the Institut Pasteur and, if required, the Board of Directors on all issues relating to scientific policy, organization, and research.
The Management team sets the overall strategy for the Institut Pasteur. The team is supported in its task by the Scientific Council and the Executive Board to ensure achievement of the strategic goals and objectives set.
Since 2010, "Campus Vert" activities have been gathering momentum at the Institut Pasteur in a bid to create more awareness about environmental issues and implement projects.
Ethics
United Nations Global Compact
The use of animals in the Institut Pasteur's research programs
Greenhouse gas emissions assessment
Neighbors Area
Social and Environmental Report
The Institut Pasteur is a research center of international renown ideally located in the very heart of Paris. Each year the institute hosts a multitude of scientific and medical conferences and meetings as well as events on a variety of themes.
Visit the Pasteur Museum, a place of remembrance that first opened to the public at the Institut Pasteur in 1936. The Museum harbors the memory of the life and work of Louis Pasteur in the spacious apartment he occupied during the final seven years of his life.
The Institut Pasteur has been contributing to the history of science, medicine and public health for 130 years.
In a context of intense global upheaval, in both health and science and with the emergence of new threats, the Institut Pasteur needs to review its scientific priorities and strategic short and medium-term orientations.
Discover the Institut Pasteur in 2019, the first year of implementation of its strategic plan. Among other things, 2019 made it possible to concretize the ambition of battling infectious diseases, an important focus of the plan as well as one of the Institut Pasteur’s historic commitments. The Covid-19 situation in 2020 reminds us of how important the fight against infectious diseases is, and will always be.
This strategic plan aims to boost fundamental research and increase its impact on health issues. In this area, much was done in 2019: reorganization of scientific departments, creation of the Institut de l'Audition, second phase of the NanoImaging project (optimization of the use of the Titan KriosTM microscope), creation of a Pasteurian innovation accelerator, etc.
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