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Portrait | 2025.05.22
Guilherme Dias de Melo, exploring the mysteries of long COVID
The Brazilian-born scientist has devoted his career to exploring the links between viral infections and the brain. He specializes in neurotropic viruses and is working to elucidate the infectious mechanisms underpinning the SARS-CoV-2 and rabies viruses. With a transcontinental background, a passion for science and a coherent approach to research challenges, Guilherme Dias de Melo is driven by an...
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Document de presse | 2010.01.18
The life and death of neurons: how a virus can control everything
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) have just discovered that the rabies virus expresses in one of its proteins a key region which enables the human neurons that it infects to survive, and this is an essential condition for the virus to spread in the organism. By identifying the mechanisms which regulate whether the neuron survives or...
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News | 2016.04.04
Division – a key moment in establishing cell polarity
One major line of research on the process of carcinogenesis lies in understanding the mechanisms underpinning the establishment of polarity. The Membrane Traffic and Cell Division Laboratory, directed at the Institut Pasteur by Arnaud Echard (Institut Pasteur/CNRS UMR 3691), is looking into apical-basal polarity acquisition mechanisms during cell division when organs are being formed. The team...
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News | 2018.11.14
130 years ago, the Institut Pasteur opened its doors for the first time
The Institut Pasteur, set up following the success of the human rabies vaccination with funds from a public appeal launched by the French Academy of Sciences, was officially opened 130 years ago, on November 14, 1888, at a ceremony attended by the French President Sadi Carnot and several other prestigious guests. We look back on a day that "would go down in the history of medicine".*A huge crowd...
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News | 2017.11.14
130 years ago, the Institut Pasteur was under construction
On June 4, 1887, the Institut Pasteur was created following the success of the rabies vaccine developed by Louis Pasteur – and thanks to the generous support of countless donors. Just set up as an institution with official charitable status, the building work began straight away."This is the start of post-exposure rabies prophylaxis. (...) A rabies vaccine center should be set up," declared Louis...
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News | 2017.12.18
Five young researchers from the Institut Pasteur International Network attended the 2017 PhD students' ceremony
Like every year since 2013, the Institut Pasteur organized on December 11th a ceremony in honor of the young graduates who defended their PhD thesis during the 2016-2017 academic year. The 2017 edition honored 34 young Pasteurian scientists, 5 of whom completed their thesis in an institution member of the Institut Pasteur International Network."We are pleased and proud to welcome these young...
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News | 2014.06.25
Africa Regional Meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network
The Africa regional meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network was organized in the Institut by Dakar (Senegal) from June 18th to June 19th followed by a Scientific Day of the African Institutes June 20th, 2014. This regional meeting and the scientific Day of Instituts Pasteur in the Africa region was an opportunity to discuss new research strategies in the Institutes of the Network,...
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Report | 2022.04.06
Louis Pasteur: a universal legacy
This year marks the bicentenary of Louis Pasteur's birth. His reputation speaks for itself, with streets and schools named after him in France and across the world. His immense legacy can even be seen in our homes, in the "pasteurized" products derived from one of his discoveries. And it was Pasteur who laid the scientific foundations for the principles of hygiene, which took on such importance...
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Article | 2017.03.31
MOOC Global Health at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface
The MOOC entitled "Global health at the human-animal-ecosystem interface", jointly produced by the University of Geneva, the Virchow-Villermé Center, the University of Montreal and the Institut Pasteur with its International Network, opened for registration on March 21.
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Article | 2019.06.18
Viruses
Teams of the Department of Virology, of Global Heath, of Structural Biology and Chemistry and of Computational Biology study viruses causing infections to understand their epidemiology and to develop alternative strategies to fight them and overcome drug resistance.
