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News | 2015.04.12
47th Council of Directors from Institut Pasteur International Network
18‐20 March 2015, Château des Ravatys The 47th Council of Directors gathered the Directors from the institutes of the Institut Pasteur International Network (RIIP), the Chairman of the Board, the Directors of the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the team of the Department of International Affairs and the heads of the Transversal Research Centers, from 18-20 March at the Château des Ravatys,...
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News | 2015.04.15
Ferring and the Institut Pasteur collaborate in novel IBD drug development project
Ferring Pharmaceuticals a research-driven, specialty biopharmaceutical group and the Institut Pasteur, a non-profit international biomedical research center in Paris (France) today announced a collaboration aimed at identifying and developing bacteriophages to treat patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
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News | 2015.04.16
The Mechanics of Life
An interdisciplinary research team formed by Otger Campàs (University of California Santa Baraba) and colleague Jérome Gros (Institut Pasteur), has received one of the prestigious 2015 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Young Investigators grants. Awarded to a select group of scientists who undergo a rigorous year-long selection process, the highly competitive collaborative research grants...
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News | 2015.04.19
Pasteur Gillings Day: A Celebration of Visionary Philanthropy
The Institut Pasteur today hosted Drs. Dennis and Mireille Gillings for the ‘Pasteur Gillings Day,’ with a varied program of activities including scientific presentations and tours of the Pasteur Museum, the Global Health Center and other important facilities.
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News | 2015.04.29
The Médecine-Sciences Program: combining science and medicine to train tomorrow's leaders in biomedical research
Recent scientific breakthroughs and technological advances have fundamentally transformed the practice of medicine and biomedical research. To keep step with this changing environment, the École Normale Supérieure, the Institut Pasteur, the Institut Curie, ESPCI ParisTech, the Collège de France and PSL Research University have joined forces to offer students in medicine and pharmacy a new...
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News | 2015.05.05
The Institut Pasteur and Stragen sign an exclusive worldwide license agreement for first-in-class pain management novel compound
The Institut Pasteur, a private non-profit international biomedical research center based in Paris (France), and Stragen, privately-owned, international healthcare company based in Geneva (Switzerland), announced today that they have entered together into an exclusive worldwide license for intellectual property, related to derivatives of endogenous dual enkephalinase inhibitor (DENKI) novel...
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News | 2015.05.06
From monkeys to humans: the importance of interspecies transmission in the emergence of retroviruses in Central Africa
Most of the viral pathogenic agents that have emerged in humans in recent decades are of animal origin. Hence, researchers from the Institut Pasteur have recently proved, for the first time scientifically at the epidemiological level, that specific contact with a monkey is a risk factor for the transmission of a pathogenic retrovirus (STLV-1/HTLV-1) to humans
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News | 2015.05.07
Viagra to prevent transmission of the malaria parasite?
By increasing the stiffness of erythrocytes infected by the causal agent of malaria, Viagra favors their elimination from the blood circulation and may therefore reduce transmission of the parasite from humans to mosquitoes. This astonishing discovery could lead to a treatment to reduce the spread of malaria within a population.
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News | 2015.05.17
Premature aging: scientists identify and correct defects in diseased cells
Scientists have succeeded in restoring normal activity in cells isolated from patients with the premature aging disease Cockayne syndrome. They have uncovered the role played in these cells by an enzyme, the HTRA3 protease. This enzyme is overexpressed in Cockayne syndrome patient cells, and leads to mitochondrial defects, which in turn play a crucial role in the appearance of symptoms leading to...
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News | 2015.05.18
Christian Bréchot at the Pasteur Institute of Côte d’Ivoire, a visit under the sign of modernization
Abidjan May 6, 2015 On the occasion of the first visit of the Director of the Institut Pasteur for 40 years, an honor guard welcomed Christian Bréchot and Marc Jouan on their arrival on the campus of the Institut Pasteur of Côte d'Ivoire The visit of the Institut Pasteur in Côte d'Ivoire has shown the dynamism of this institute which had joined the International Network of Pasteur...
