Our scientific approach
A multidisciplinary basic research
Diseases can rarely be pinned down to just one cause. They are often the result of subtle interactions between microbes, genetics, immunity, environment, lifestyle and age.
To unlock the secrets of these complex mechanisms, the Institut Pasteur applies a cross-disciplinary approach combining numerous areas of scientific expertise in microbiology, immunology, genetics, molecular and cellular biology, neuroscience, epidemiology, modeling and artificial intelligence.
An international research
Since its inauguration in 1888, the Institut Pasteur has embraced the profound and unwavering conviction that health knows no borders. Diseases spread globally. In order to understand, prevent and fight them, scientific excellence is needed, it too firmly rooted in a global, open and collaborative mindset.
Every day, scientists from all four corners of the globe come together to pool their knowledge in their shared efforts to identify real-world solutions aimed at improving patients' health wherever they may be in the world.
Our scientific expertise
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur make sense of the living world with the sole aim of driving scientific progress to protect human life.
Research at the Institut Pasteur is structured around 12 scientific departments, enabling major public health challenges to be met. Each department deploys teams of experts tackling major biological and health issues with the common goal of improving understanding to improve care.
Our key scientific priorities
Pasteur 2030, the Institut Pasteur's strategic plan for 2030, focuses all the institute's efforts on four scientific priorities aimed at understanding, anticipating and more effectively tackling diseases that impose the heaviest burden on human health.
Given the major health threats of our time, including pandemics, antimicrobial resistance, environmental disruption, chronic diseases and aging populations, a silo mentality is no longer compatible with scientific progress.
Our key projects
Faced with emerging infectious diseases, global outbreaks and antibiotic resistance, science needs to go faster and further.
In its efforts to meet major public health challenges, the Institut Pasteur is launching several major scientific initiatives for 2030 with the common goal of anticipating, understanding and fighting diseases that threaten human health throughout the world.