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Article | 2025.05.16
European Consortium for Zoonotic and Emerging Viruses - EURL-PH-ERZV
Member of the Consortium of EU Public Health Reference Laboratories for emerging, rodent-borne and zoonotic viral pathogens (EURL-PH-ERZV)
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Article | 2024.04.30
Pierre Lépine, virus explorer
Known for discovering a poliomyelitis vaccine, this researcher with a keen interest in the history of medicine also furthered use of the microscope and worked on health for Paris City Council.
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News | 2014.03.05
A renovation for the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar
On March 6th, 2014 the Professor Christian BRECHOT, President of the Institut Pasteur, has inaugurated the Girard renovated building of the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar. This building built in 1935 has been brought up to international standards with fundings from the French Ministry of Research to meet quality and scientific excellence requirement. The Girard building hosts the following units...
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News | 2016.05.17
The Institut Pasteur in Bangui welcomes French and Central African Presidents
On his way to the security summit in Abuja, Francois Hollande, President of the French Republic stopped Friday, May 13, 2016 in Bangui, capital of Central African Republic. For his third visit to the country since the beginning of his term, President Hollande visited the Institut Pasteur in Bangui with President Faustin-Archange Touadera, his newly elected Central African counterpart.The...
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News | 2017.12.19
"Pasteur, the experimenter" – the must-see exhibition!
The "Pasteur, the experimenter" exhibition officially opened on December 13, 2017 with a ceremony attended by French President, Emmanuel Macron. Organized by Universcience with the support of the Institut Pasteur, it is creating a buzz in the press. You can discover photos of the launch event below. The exhibition is on at the Palais de la découverte (Paris) until August 19, 2018. ©Ph.LevyNo...
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Article | 2024.04.30
Émile Roux, savior of children
In 1878, Louis Pasteur was looking for a physician to help him study contagious diseases. His associate Émile Duclaux introduced him to a former student of his – Émile Roux – who quickly came into the orbit of the famous scientist. The young physician was 25, Pasteur was 56.
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Article | 2024.04.30
Albert Calmette, pioneering social medicine
From Nice to Lille, via Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh, many schools, hospitals and streets are named after Calmette. And for good reason, as all of these were places where Albert Calmette worked to improve hygiene and healthcare. A pioneer of social medicine, his work on tuberculosis focused on both research and health education.
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Article | 2019.06.25
Infectious diseases emergence and transmission dynamics (23 entities)
This thematic area explores the process of infectious disease emergence through its biological and epidemiological components, including the crossing of the species barrier, pathogen identification, transmission dynamics, and epidemic surveillance and monitoring.
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Document de presse | 2015.09.30
The Institut Pasteur and the World Organisation for Animal Health sign their first collaboration agreement
Within the framework of the “One Health” concept, aimed in particular at protecting public and animal health through policies to prevent and control pathogens at the human/animal/environment interface, the collaboration agreement just signed by the Institut Pasteur and the World Organisation for Animal Health seeks to strengthen cooperation in this field between the two organisations...
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News | 2018.03.09
"Pasteur, the microbe legacy" lecture cycle
The Palais de la découverte is offering a lecture cycle to coincide with the "Pasteur, the Experimenter" exhibition, with scientific advice from Maxime Schwartz, former President of the Institut Pasteur and scientific curator of the exhibition. Note that the exhibition will be held at the Palais de la découverte until August 19, 2018.Louis Pasteur, a qualified chemist, was behind the greatest...
