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Vidéo | 2025.06.16
Lung cancer: A major breakthrough thanks to AI!
A better understanding of lung cancer thanks to artificial intelligence: an unprecedented breakthrough supported by Institut PasteurFor the first time in the world, researchers have succeeded in mapping the organization of immune cells in the tumor environment of aggressive lung cancer, using an innovative approach based on AI and biological imaging.This work is led by Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin...
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News | 2025.06.12
New identity: restating our commitment to life
The Institut Pasteur, an international center for biomedical research recognized for its contributions to science and public health, has reached a strategic turning point in its history. This has prompted a new visual and narrative identity aimed at strengthening ties with the public.
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News | 2025.06.23
Oncovita, a spin-off from the Institut Pasteur, achieves new milestone in the treatment of a rare pleural cancer
Oncovita, a spin-off from the Institut Pasteur, has been granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its MVdeltaC cancer immunotherapy, designed to treat pleural mesothelioma, a rare cancer of the pleura often caused by asbestos.
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Vidéo | 2025.06.25
Fight Tuberculosis - Yaelle Wormser
Science and Music: When a doctoral student raps against tuberculosis! Our talented researcher Yaelle Wormser turns her passion for research into a powerful flow!In the fight against tuberculosis, our young scientists lack neither creativity nor determination.Original lyrics by Yaelle Wormser @Lady_PipetteMusic : Grind Mode - Nest BeatzMix & Master : Swann Camurat
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Vidéo | 2025.06.25
At the heart of immunity - Yasmine Belkaid
The immune system doesn't just defend us: it regulates our metabolism, influences our behavior, helps repair tissue... and even plays a role during pregnancy.Yasmine Belkaid, Director General of the Institut Pasteur, looks back on the evolution of our understanding of the immune system, at the formal session of the Institut de France on June 3th, 2025. A fascinating vision of science, at the...
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Vidéo | 2025.06.30
Lessons from the plague
What if the great pandemics could die out naturally?That's what Javier Pizarro-Cerda, head of the Yersinia unit at the Institut Pasteur, has been studying by following the trail... of the plague!By analyzing the Yersinia pestis bacterium responsible for bubonic plague, his team has identified a genetic mutation that reappears at the end of every pandemic in history.This mutation makes the...
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News | 2025.06.30
Tuberkiller: a rap to explain tuberculosis research
As part of the video series "My PhD at the Institut Pasteur," which highlights the work of the institute’s PhD students through short and accessible formats, a new episode features Yaëlle Wormser, a doctoral student in microbiology. Through a powerful rap, she raises public awareness about her research on tuberculosis, an infectious disease responsible for over 10 million cases and 1.25 million...
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Vidéo | 2025.07.07
Virus hunt!
A race against time... to stay ahead of epidemics!Chloé Baum, an engineer at the Institut Pasteur, shows us how hand-held technology can identify viruses like Ebola in just a few hours.Thanks to genomic sequencing, researchers can read the DNA of viruses, spot their mutations and act before they spread. In French Guiana, New Caledonia or in laboratory trucks, the Pasteur Network tracks epidemics...
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News | 2025.07.07
"Chairs of Excellence in Biology/Health": two new Institut Pasteur laureates
The Institut Pasteur is delighted that two of the winners of the new "Chairs of Excellence in Biology/Health" call for proposals round launched by the French National Research Agency (ANR) are its own scientists. Simonetta Gribaldo and Marc Lecuit were recognized for their innovative and ambitious projects in the biomedical research field.
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Article | 2019.07.11
Department of Computational Biology
We live at a time when biology is producing vast reams of data, which can only be deciphered using mathematical modeling, statistics and computing, providing answers to a wide variety of biological and medical questions. The Department of Computational Biology was set up to analyze and model these data, and develop new analytical methods tailored to new data acquisition technologies (sequencing,...
