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Article | 2025.07.25
2024 Annual report and financial report
In addition to the financial report, the Institut Pasteur's annual report highlights significant scientific discoveries and advances, as well as the highlights of the past year. This year, we also offer a poster of our scientific highlights for 2024.
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News | 2025.08.27
Discover the Pasteur Institute's major discoveries for 2024
A gene therapy trial for childhood deafness. A malaria vaccine. Microbiome gene editing. Cancer immunotherapy. A key gene in embryonic development. Effective treatment for bronchiolitis. Indian Ocean temperatures for anticipating outbreaks... Here is an excerpt from our discoveries for 2024. You can also download the poster in PDF format at the bottom of the page.
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Article | 2017.01.06
Post-Doctoral Grants Calmette & Yersin
Complete your postdoc within the Pasteur Network.
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Vidéo | 2025.09.08
Close-up of a tick!
Do you know what a tick looks like when viewed VERY closely?Christine Schmitt, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, takes us into the infinitely small world to reveal the secrets of Ixodes ricinus... and the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease.Using electron imaging, her team observes the tick, its harpoon-shaped mouthparts, and even the Borrelia bacteria, down to its hidden flagella.A...
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Portrait | 2025.09.04
Sebastian Baumgarten: understanding the impact of climate change, from the Arctic to malaria
Sebastian Baumgarten is a scientist with a fascination for marine and molecular biology, and more recently the huge potential of bioinformatics. At the Institut Pasteur, his research focuses on the infectious agent responsible for malaria. Driven by insatiable curiosity and a desire to understand the mechanisms used by organisms to adapt to climate change, his career brought him to Paris, where...
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News | 2025.09.12
Plague in Madagascar: a new model sheds light on the seasonality of outbreaks
A new model has been developed to elucidate the seasonal dynamics of plague in Madagascar. In this country, where the disease remains endemic, and most often occurs between October and March. The associated study, which arose from a collaboration between the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, paves the way for more effective eradication and prevention...
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Vidéo | 2025.09.15
The plague in Madagascar
What if the plague had never disappeared?Antoine Brault, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, explains how his team is tracking rats and fleas in Madagascar to understand why plague epidemics are still reappearing today.Using a supercomputer, they have shown that from September onwards, the number of fleas explodes, increasing the risk of an epidemic—even when the rat population is declining. ...
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News | 2025.09.15
The Institut Pasteur opens its doors for the 2025 European Heritage Days
To mark the 42nd European Heritage Days, this year on the theme of "Architectural Heritage", the Institut Pasteur is opening its doors on Saturday and Sunday September 20 and 21, from 2 to 6pm.
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News | 2025.04.22
Tecovirimat is an effective treatment for mpox, in cells culture
The antiviral drug tecovirimat is frequently used to treat mpox. But is it really effective, especially against the new, more pathogenic strain of the virus that has been in circulation since 2024? A study by the Institut Pasteur, recently published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases (1), concludes that it is.
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Fiche maladie | 2019.10.16
Chikungunya
Chikungunya is a viral disease transmitted to humans by the bite of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Although rarely fatal, chikungunya can cause significant pain and debilitating symptoms that affect patients' quality of life. Existing treatments are solely symptomatic. In France, the current conditions in 80% of départements are conducive to the emergence of chikungunya.
