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News | 2020.12.08
Institut Pasteur scientist Mélanie Hamon wins the 15th Georges, Jacques and Elias Canetti Prize
The Georges, Jacques and Elias Canetti Prize is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. The winner of this 2020 edition is Mélanie Hamon, a scientist and Head of the Chromatin and Infection team at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Her research on the epigenetic modifications induced during bacterial infections particularly focuses on the Streptococcus pneumoniae bacterium, which causes severe...
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News | 2020.12.08
Central nervous system infections: how group B streptococci cross the blood-brain barrier
Central nervous system infections are devastating diseases, with a high mortality rate and long-term neurological disabilities in those who survive. They can be caused by a variety of pathogenic microorganisms – bacteria, fungi or viruses. One characteristic shared by all these pathogens is their ability to cross a major protective barrier in the brain, the blood-brain barrier. Scientists from...
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Document de presse | 2020.12.17
ComCor study on places of infection with SARS-CoV-2: where are French people catching the virus?
The Institut Pasteur, in partnership with the French National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM), Santé publique France and the Ipsos Social Research Institute, recently presented the results of the ComCor epidemiological study on circumstances and places of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The aim of the study was to identify the socio-demographic factors, places visited and behaviors associated...
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News | 2020.12.18
Nine Young Researchers from the Institut Pasteur International Network present at the 2020 PhD Student Ceremony
The 8th ceremony in honour of the young graduates who have completed their thesis at the Institut Pasteur during the academic year 2019-2020 was held on December 4th 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the event took place in visio and thus allowed a greater number of young doctoral students from the Institut Pasteur International Network (IPIN) to join this special event. This ceremony, like the...
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Document de presse | 2020.12.28
COVID-19: optimizing surveillance in long-term care facilities
Throughout the world, long-term care facilities have been high-risk sites for virus spread since the emergence of the COVID-19 epidemic. In this context, the capacity for timely surveillance and control of case numbers is essential in such facilities. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur have joined forces with the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Inserm, and the National...
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News | 2020.12.28
Genuage: virtual reality supporting super-resolution microscopy
Research teams working within the field of virtual reality to enable biologists to visualize and analyze super high-resolution microscopy data are still scarce at global level. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and Institut Curie developed the Genuage software platform to enter cells and perform various types of measurements more effectively.Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and Institut Curie...
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Page avancée | 2021.01.08
2020 Theses and Ceremony
2020 Theses and Ceremony
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Fiche maladie | 2015.10.06
Chagas disease
Chagas disease is a neglected parasitic infection. It is transmitted by a hematophagous insect and mainly affects the American continent, where over 100 million people are exposed to it. In some cases, the infection takes a chronic form, causing irreversible lesions and death. Every year, Chagas disease claims thousands of lives. Chagas disease is the parasitic disease with the highest socio-...
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News | 2021.01.20
A vaccine candidate based on glycochemistry targets shigellosis: promising Phase 1 results
Diarrheal diseases are the world's second leading cause of death in children aged under 5 years, and of these, bacillary dysentery or shigellosis remains a major public health issue. This disease is most prevalent in African and South-East Asian countries, where it is endemic despite significant improvements in terms of access to drinking water and management of contaminated water. Consequently,...
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News | 2021.01.25
Covid-19: impacts of the pandemic on the human microbiome
The Covid-19 epidemic has had great impact on people’s lives across the world. The disease, physical distancing and lockdown measures have had multiple effects on health. One less-studied effect is the consequence on the microbiome. A group of prominent microbiome researchers in biomedical and social science, coordinated by Brett Finlay (University of British Columbia) and Tamara Giles-Vernick (...
