Article | 2022.01.24
Since January 2012, with the support and collaboration of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), the Association of Former Students of the Institut Pasteur (AAEIP) and the Education Department of the Institut Pasteur organize remote seminars by videoconference.
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'...
Article | 2022.02.03
As part of its commitment to gender equality in the workplace, the Institut Pasteur has adopted a Gender Equality Plan (GEP). The GEP is a new step aimed at strengthening the Institut Pasteur's policy for equality, diversity and inclusion.
Document de presse | 2022.02.02
Teams at the Institut Pasteur, CNRS, Vaccine Research Institute (VRI) and Université de Paris have discovered a new function of anti-HIV-1[1] antibodies by applying cutting-edge microscopy techniques to in vitro viral cultures. The scientists found that certain antibodies already known for effectively targeting HIV-1 envelope (Env) protein can prevent infected cells from releasing viral particles...
Page avancée | 2022.02.07
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News | 2022.02.14
On February 15, 2022, La Poste issued a stamp with the effigy of Louis Pasteur on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth.As part of the celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of Louis Pasteur, La Poste (French company, mainly an operator of postal services) issues this year a stamp and a philatelic souvenir with the effigy of the scientist. Created by Patrick Dérible after a photo...
News | 2022.02.15
Despite concerted planetary efforts to sequence and analyze SARS-CoV-2, our understanding of the virus is limited by a lack of genomic data on coronaviruses. A group of scientists who began working together at a hackathon have discovered a number of novel coronaviruses by analyzing all the RNA sequencing data that is publicly available at global level.Current biotechnological tools have been used...
Document de presse | 2022.02.11
The Institut Pasteur would like to pay tribute to the memory of Professor Luc Montagnier, who died on February 8, 2022.Although in recent years Professor Luc Montagnier had adopted positions on various subjects that were hard to reconcile with scientific data and with well-established consensus views held by the scientific and medical community, his career left its mark on the history of French...
Document de presse | 2022.02.17
Legionellosis or Legionnaires’ disease affected more than 1 800 people in France in 2019 and caused 160 deaths. This emerging disease is caused by Legionella pneumophila, an environmental bacterium that thrives in hot water systems. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, the University of Paris have discovered a mechanism that allows Legionella pneumophila to target the immune response...
Document de presse | 2022.02.21
Annually over 50,000 bone marrow transplantations occur worldwide as a therapy for multiple cancerous and non-cancerous diseases. Yet, how this procedure gives rise to bone marrow-derived cells that engraft the brain, despite being absent in the normal brain, remains unknown. In the present study, scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and the Paris Brain Institute (Inserm) discovered how...