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Report | 2024.11.21
The Georges, Jacques and Elias Canetti Prize
The Georges, Jacques and Elias Canetti Prize was set up in 2006 after the family made a donation to the Institut Pasteur of 158 handwritten letters exchanged by the three Canetti brothers: Georges, a physician and scientist at the Institut Pasteur; Jacques, a music producer and founder of the Trois Baudets theater; and Elias, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.The Canetti Prize was set up in...
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News | 2025.11.27
An Innovative Method for Measuring DNA Polymerase Fidelity
In collaboration with New England Biolabs, the DNA Replication research group led by Ludovic Sauguet at the Institut Pasteur has published in Nucleic Acids Research an innovative approach based on PacBio long-read sequencing to precisely characterize the errors made by DNA polymerases with unprecedented accuracy.DNA polymerases (DNAPs), essential enzymes for DNA replication and repair, are the...
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News | 2025.11.27
Welcome to the 2025-2026 PhD students at the Institut Pasteur
The Institut Pasteur is proud to welcome every year a new generation of PhD students to its campus, a place of scientific excellence where more than 350 doctoral researchers from over 50 nationalities come together. On Friday, November 21, 2025, the Orientation Day gave new arrivals the opportunity to discover the academic, cultural, and social richness that will shape their life on campus.
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Vidéo | 2025.12.01
HIV: the fight goes on
World AIDS Day: HIV is on the decline. Science, however, never stops.Today, it is possible to live with HIV: treatments can block the virus until it becomes undetectable and non-transmissible. But this balance remains fragile: without funding and research, there will be less screening, less prevention, and more infections.In this video, Michaela Müller-Trutwin and Asier Sáez-Cirión, researchers...
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News | 2025.11.17
A new class of molecules to combat resistant bacteria
Scientists working in France have selected a new class of molecules known as ruthenium-modified aptamers to eliminate Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria, or pneumococcal disease. Their pioneering approach is an alternative method for combating these bacteria, which can be resistant to traditional antimicrobial treatments.
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Vidéo | 2025.12.12
The inverted heart
What if your heart had been built upside down?Normally, the heart has four chambers: two atria at the top and two ventricles at the bottom. The right ventricle sends blood to the lungs, while the left ventricle sends blood to the rest of the body. But in some babies, the ventricles can form in the wrong place.The result: poor blood circulation, leading to serious heart disease.Sigolène Meilhac, a...
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News | 2025.12.10
Ten Years of Pasteur MOOCs: Sharing Science Differently
Since 2015, the digital education of the Institut Pasteur has been spreading science worldwide. Here’s a look back at a collective adventure that has already trained over 250,000 learners and transformed the way we share knowledge about infectious diseases.
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Article | 2025.03.20
ALFI association
The Institut Pasteur has established a partnership with ALFI, a social and solidarity economy association of the Arcade-VYV Group, in order to offer 30 housing units to Pasteurians.
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Article | 2025.03.20
Real estate company Nexity Studéa
The partnership with the real estate company Nexity Studéa allows Pasteurians to easily access more than 50 residences in Paris and Île-de-France region.
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Article | 2023.02.23
One Health-Emerging Infectious Diseases Graduate School (1H-EID)
The new Graduate School "One Health in Emerging Infectious Diseases" (1H-EID) is entirely dedicated to EIDs with a multidisciplinary approach. This Graduate School offers a high-level educational program based on research, to train future researchers, health professionals and decision-makers.The aim of 1H-EID will be to form a community of frontline actors, researchers and decision-makers,all...
