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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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Document de presse | 2025.07.29
Long COVID: SARS-CoV-2 persists in the brainstem in the long term and deregulates neuronal activity
Symptoms can persist in some SARS-CoV-2 patients several months after infection. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur have demonstrated in an animal model that SARS-CoV-2 infects the brain and persists in the brainstem for up to 80 days after the acute infection phase. The presence of the virus is linked to symptoms of depression, impaired memory, and anxiety. Genes associated with neuronal...
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Article | 2016.12.09
Tuition fees
Tuition fees vary according to the length of the course.2nd year Masters students from the Greater Paris universities (Université de Paris, Paris-Saclay and Sorbonne Université) attending courses covered by agreements with the Institut Pasteur and other students from these universities attending courses as part of a doctoral module are exempt from fees.The "Student" rate applies upon...
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Article | 2017.09.12
Pasteur-Paris University enrollment 2018
The 2017-2018 call for enrollment of students in October 2018 is open.
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Document de presse | 2018.05.31
Professor Christine Petit receives the 2018 Kavli Prize
The Institut Pasteur, the Collège de France, the French Academy of Sciences and Inserm are honored to announce that the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience to Christine Petit for her pioneering work on the molecular and neural mechanisms of hearing. This prize, which is awarded every two years, consists of a $1 million (U.S.) fund...
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Portrait | 2019.02.12
An Epidemiologist Faces Ebola in The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ebola has battered the Democratic Republic of the Congo for many months, from the outbreak that ended in July 2018 to the epidemic currently raging. These are reminders that there is progress to be made in terms of controlling and understanding this deadly infectious disease. In 2018, during the epidemic in the north west of the country, Dr. Amber Kunkel, a scientist from the Institut Pasteur in...
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Portrait | 2022.12.13
Pierre-Marie Lledo: a neuro-optimist in work and in life
Perception, emotions, behavior, decision-making, memory, good mental health, depression – these are some of the research topics that interest Pierre-Marie Lledo. With his team of biologists, physicians, mathematicians, biophysicists and biochemists, he is working to uncover some of the most intimate mechanisms in the brain.
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Document de presse | 2023.09.28
Malaria: treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria patients under threat in the Horn of Africa
Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria using rapid diagnostic tests and treatment with artemisinin derivatives, the main component of the malaria treatments recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), are under threat in the Horn of Africa. Scientists from the Laboratory of Parasitology and Medical Mycology at the University of Strasbourg and Strasbourg University Hospital, in...
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News | 2023.12.18
Climate and health: the latest on a silent epidemic
While the main outcome of COP28 was an agreement calling on the parties to "transition away from fossil fuels" with the aim of limiting climate change, it was also the first COP to include a Health Day. Rising global temperatures, extreme meteorological phenomena and ecosystem change are not merely environmental concerns. They are catalysts of a silent epidemic that is affecting human health....
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Article | 2016.11.17
Board of Governors: Missions and composition
The Board of Governors is responsible for the affairs of Institut Pasteur. It approves the strategic orientations presented by the President. It approves budgets and financial statements.