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News | 2015.05.27
Institut Pasteur's involvement in the fight against Ebola
The Institut Pasteur and the Institut Pasteur International Network are assisting the international aid effort by offering diagnostic support and epidemiological surveillance in collaboration with the Guinean Ministry of Health. On the occasion of the international congress " Targeting Ebola 2015 ", held at the Institut Pasteur in Paris on May 28 and 29, 2015, find all the information...
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News | 2015.06.03
Regional Europe Meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network in Lille
May 27 to 28, 2015 The Regional Europe Meeting was hosted in Lille, France, from May 27 to 28, 2015 with representatives of the European Commission. The meeting brought together directors and scientists from 7 other RIIP establishments in Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Russia and Paris, France. Antibiotic resistance, re-emerging diseases, infection and cancer, health and environment...
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News | 2015.06.07
The native capsid of a retrovirus is observed for the first time ever at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, in collaboration with the Uruguayan Medical School, obtained for the first time ever high-resolution images of the native capsid protein of the Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV). These observations represent a major progress in understanding retrovirus biology, opening new avenues towards the development of antiretroviral therapies.
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News | 2015.06.08
The Institut Pasteur signs a cooperation agreement with Fiocruz and the University of São Paulo
June 8th, 2015 The Institut Pasteur, its historical partner in Brazil, Fiocruz and the University of São Paulo, the largest in the Latin American continent, have signed in Rio de Janeiro a tripartite cooperation agreement on 8th June, 2015. This agreement, between these three actors in Research and International Public Health, defines the main directions of scientific cooperation and prefigures...
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News | 2015.06.15
Restoring natural immunity against cancers
Scientists have successfully increased the infiltration of immune cells into tumors, thus inducing the immune system to block tumor growth. They show that, in combination with existing immunotherapies, this process efficiently destroys cancer cells.
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News | 2015.06.23
Three Ebola virus variants identified in Guinea
Sequencing the genome of Ebola virus strains circulating in Guinea has allowed scientists at the Institut Pasteur in Dakar and in Paris, the CNRS and the University of Sydney to retrace the spread of the virus and monitor its evolution in the country where the outbreak started. This research reveals the co-circulation in Guinea, particularly in the urban regions of the capital and neighboring...
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News | 2015.06.24
MERS-CoV in South Korea: the Institut Pasteur is supporting the response
Since May 20, 2015, South Korea has been facing an outbreak of MERS-CoV that began with a traveler who returned from the Middle East. To date (as of June 24, 2015), there have been 179 cases and 27 deaths in Korea. As part of its global health mission, the Institut Pasteur is actively involved in monitoring the development of the outbreak, through its dedicated outbreak investigation taskforce.
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News | 2015.07.08
Eligo Bioscience receives EUR 2 Million from Seventure Partners to develop smart antibiotics
Eligo Bioscience, located at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, announced it received an investment of €2m in a seed round financing from Seventure Partners, one of Europe’s leaders in financing innovation and visionary investor in the microbiome field since 2008.
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News | 2015.07.09
The role of the microbiota in preventing allergies
The microbiota is involved in many mechanisms, including digestion, vitamin synthesis and host defense. It is well established that a loss of bacterial symbionts promotes the development of allergies. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur have succeeded in explaining this phenomenon, and demonstrate how the microbiota acts on the balance of the immune system: the presence of microbes specifically...
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News | 2015.07.09
Towards a stronger partnership with Mexico
On the occasion of the Franco-Mexican convention on Health, which took place this Friday, July 10th at the French National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Mercedes Juan López, Minister of Health of Mexico and Christian Bréchot, President of the Institut Pasteur signed a memorandum of understanding to regulate and strengthen the Franco-Mexican scientific collaborations.
