News | 2023.06.16
Five major themes were at the core of 2022 research advances: emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, brain connectivity and neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, vaccinology and immunotherapy. They have honored Institut Pasteur's 2019-2023 strategic plan.
News | 2023.09.05
Highly promising, broadly neutralizing antibodies can react with the vast majority of HIV particles to cause their destruction by the body. However, the latter would have to be able to produce equally effective antibodies...
Document de presse | 2024.11.12
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and France’s Institut Pasteur have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to address the urgent health threats posed by the rise of tropical infectious diseases (ID) in the Asia-Pacific region. Together, this partnership would enable both parties to co-develop innovative technologies with...
News | 2025.03.20
The Institut Pasteur and UCSF-QBI celebrated an ongoing successful scientific collaboration today, which was initiated in March 2019, and expanded significantly during the pandemic. This alliance, formalized in October 2022, aimed at bolstering the fight against infectious diseases, has already spawned more than 20 research projects, a dozen publications in high-level journals, and numerous...
Fiche maladie | 2015.10.06
Sepsis is the term used internationally to describe a widespread inflammatory response that occurs as a result of severe infection. Septicemia, the term coined in 1837 by French doctor Pierre Piorry from the Greek words "σήψις" (sêptikós), putrefaction, and "αίμα" (haîma), blood, refers to the presence of bacteria (or fungi or viruses) in the blood. Sepsis primarily affects people with weak...
Fiche maladie | 2015.10.06
Whooping cough, long thought of as a childhood illness, can be severe at any age. This bacterial infection is particularly dangerous, and sometimes even fatal, for unvaccinated or partially vaccinated infants and at-risk individuals such as pregnant women and elderly people.
CNR/CCOMS | 2019.11.07
For humanCSPCode de la santé publique, articles L 1121-1 et suivants (loi) et R 1121-1 et suivants (règlements). - Noter : sur Légifrance, visualiser le texte du CSP en vérifiant la date de vigueur (« texte en vigueur à (telle date) ») qui peut être modifiée pour voir l'état du droit à telle date passée ou à venir.(Noter : Lorsqu'elle est « codifiée », i.e. tronsformée en articles d'un code - ici...
Document de presse | 2020.01.31
As well as sequencing the whole genome of coronavirus 2019-nCoV, the Institut Pasteur continued to work on the samples taken from the first confirmed cases. The quality of these initial samples enabled rapid cell-culture isolation of the new virus. The Institut Pasteur's scientists now have access to the virus responsible for the infection. The isolation of the virus paves the way for new...
News | 2021.07.09
A new system of governance is being introduced for the Institut Pasteur International Network and its 33 members, which since 2011 have been part of the Pasteur International Network association, which was chaired by the Institut Pasteur President Stewart Cole. Ten years on, the Network is adopting a more participatory, balanced mode of governance and a more structured business model. The...
Document de presse | 2022.01.24
Professor Pierre Buffet has been appointed as Medical Director of the Institut Pasteur. Pierre Buffet took up his post on January 3, 2022 within the Institut Pasteur's Department of Scientific Affairs. Professor Pierre Buffet has been appointed as Medical Director within the Institut Pasteur's Department of Scientific Affairs, led by Senior Executive Scientific Vice-President Christophe d'...