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Document de presse | 2021.04.21
SARS-CoV-2: infection induces antibodies capable of killing infected cells regardless of disease severity
Drawing on epidemiological field studies and the FrenchCOVID hospital cohort coordinated by Inserm, teams from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and the Vaccine Research Institute (VRI, Inserm/University Paris-Est Créteil) studied the antibodies induced in individuals with asymptomatic or symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. The scientists demonstrated that infection induces polyfunctional antibodies....
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Document de presse | 2021.12.01
Virus related to SARS-CoV-2 found in bats in Cambodia
What are the origins of SARS-CoV-2? This is the world’s most pressing scientific puzzle. Its pieces scattered throughout the world are currently being sought out by scientists. Their goal: to track down the culprit for the largest health crisis to hit the globe in the past century. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge have identified a coronavirus in...
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News | 2023.03.22
The origins of SARS-CoV-2: the search goes on
Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from? How did this virus enter the human population? These questions still remain unanswered. In June 2022, a group of experts, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO), published a report on the origin of coronavirus but was unable to draw a definitive conclusion. Since then, research has...
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Document de presse | 2020.11.16
Operation and reliability of RT-PCR tests in the detection of SARS-CoV-2
The National Reference Center (CNR) for Respiratory Viruses at the Institut Pasteur specializes in viruses such as influenza and bronchiolitis in infants. As an expert center in France, the CNR is responsible for monitoring cases of respiratory infections and for epidemic surveillance. When a new virus emerges, like the novel coronavirus in China, the CNR's task is to do everything it can to...
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Article | 2016.12.20
Department of Global Health
The main objectives of the interdisciplinary Department of Global Health are to study infectious diseases and tackle the emergence of new pathogens.
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News | 2020.11.24
Researchers from Hong-Kong University - Pasteur Research Pole and Institut Pasteur of New Caledonia are winners of the "Pasteur Network Talent Award" 2020.
«Pasteur Network Talent Awards» 2020 were presented on Thursday 19 November 2020 to Dr Sophie Valkenburg and Dr Roman Thibeaux by Pr Pierre-Marie Girard, Institut Pasteur vice-president international Affairs and by Prof. Stewart Cole, President of The Institut Pasteur.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these awards were presented by videoconference during the 52nd Council of Directors of the...
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News | 2024.06.10
The institut pasteur partners with the new exhibition at the musée des confluences in lyon: "epidemics, taking care of the living world"
From April 12, 2024 to February 16, 2025, the Musée des Confluences is hosting "Epidemics, taking care of the living world," an exhibition in which epidemics are viewed as both a biological and social phenomenon. We speak to anthropologist and project manager, Mathilde Gallay-Keller about this exhibition.
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News | 2023.11.15
The Institut Pasteur pays tribute to Dr. Grancher, physician and “Pasteurian”
On November 7, 2023, the Grancher Foundation celebrated its 120th anniversary on the Institut Pasteur campus. The Foundation was established by Dr. Joseph Grancher. It was an opportunity for the Institut Pasteur's President to pay tribute to the physician best known for his work on tuberculosis – a disease that the Institut Pasteur continues to fight.
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Document de presse | 2021.11.26
ComCor study: new results on places of infection with SARS-CoV-2 and analysis of the efficacy of messenger RNA vaccines against the Delta variant
From May 23 to August 13, 2021, the Institut Pasteur, in partnership with the French National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM), Santé publique France and the Ipsos institute, conducted the fourth part of the ComCor epidemiological study on circumstances and places of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in France. The aim of the study was to identify the socio-demographic factors, places visited and...
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Document de presse | 2020.05.29
A preclinical study shows that hydroxychloroquine has no antiviral effect on SARS-CoV-2 in vivo
A study on the effects of hydroxychloroquine n macaques infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, used alone or in combination with azithromycin, have been pre-published(1) on Research Square, after their submission to Nature. Scientists from the CEA, Inserm, Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris-Saclay, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and Aix-Marseille Université have been involved in the study...
