1. News | 2015.07.16

   Sara Eyangoh appointed to the TDR Scientific & Technical Advisory Committee (STAC)

   Sara Eyangoh, scientific Director and Head of the mycobacteriology unit of the Centre Pasteur du Cameroun has been officially appointed as a member of the Scientific & Technical Advisory Committee of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR)

2. News | 2015.07.19

   First case of prolonged remission (12 years) in an HIV-infected child

   A young woman now aged 18 and a half, who at birth was HIV-infected via mother-to-child transmission, is in virological remission, despite not having taken any antiretroviral therapy for the last 12 years. This first case in the world of long-term remission in a child, monitored in the French ANRS pediatric cohort, is presented by Dr Asier Sáez-Cirión at the IAS conference in Vancouver.

3. News | 2015.07.29

   A MOOC in vaccinology

   A new MOOC developed by the Institut Pasteur will be launched on September 17, 2015. Thirty-one internationally renowned medicine professors, scientists, and public health professionals from many countries, will give a large overview of vaccinology: history, definitions, basic immunology, epidemiology, preclinical and clinical development, recent vaccines, and future challenges. This MOOC is...

4. News | 2015.08.02

   First Tripartite Fiocruz-IP-USP Hands-on Course Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

   The aim of this course is to provide students with theory and practical tools to analyze Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. The course is composed of a theory and practice lessons. In the first week theory sessions will cover the main kind of HTS analyses (re-sequencing and variant analysis, de-novo sequencing, transcriptomics, ChIP-Seq, metagenomics), in addition to some general...

5. News | 2015.08.05

   Train Africa’s scientists in crisis response

   Christian Bréchot, President of the Institut Pasteur, gives his personal take on the Ebola crisis, in Nature, on August 5, 2015.

6. News | 2015.09.06

   Malaria: a mutation counteracts resistance to chloroquine

   Since 1995, chloroquine is no longer used in French Guiana to treat P. falciparum malaria as it became resistant. The Institut Pasteur in French Guiana described for the first time, a reversal of this resistance in the parasite due to the acquisition of a new mutation. Published in the scientific journal PNAS, this finding is significant in optimizing the use and design of antimalarial drugs.

7. News | 2015.09.07

   Death of Professor Anatoly ZHEBRUN

   It is with profound sadness that we have just learned of the untimely death of Professor Anatoly ZHEBRUN, Director of the Institut Pasteur of Saint Petersburg. After studying at the Academy of Military Medicine in Saint Petersburg in 1965, Anatoly ZHEBRUN embarked on a career as Naval Health Physician in north-western Russia. Specialising in Immunology, Microbiology and Public Health, he joined...

8. News | 2015.09.06

   World Sepsis Day: fighting deadly infections

   On September 11, the Institut Pasteur will host a conference for World Sepsis Day (WSD). Sepsis is a condition triggered by a serious infection (usually bacterial but occasionally fungal, viral or parasitic) that attacks the body's vital functions. Despite modern medical advances in vaccinations, antibiotics and intensive care, there is still a high death rate among sepsis victims. Septicemia...

9. News | 2015.09.22

   A new Institut Pasteur created in Guinea

   On Monday September 21, 2015 a protocol of agreement for the creation of the Institut Pasteur of Guinea was signed in Conakry between the Republic of Guinea and the Institut Pasteur. The Institut Pasteur of Guinea will be the 33rd member of the Institut Pasteur International Network, and will be set up in response to the requirements outlined by the authorities in Guinea following the Ebola...

10. News | 2015.09.29

    The Institut Pasteur and the World Organisation for Animal Health sign their first collaboration agreement

    Within the framework of the “One Health” concept, aimed in particular at protecting public and animal health through policies to prevent and control pathogens at the human/animal/environment interface, the collaboration agreement just signed by the Institut Pasteur and the World Organisation for Animal Health seeks to strengthen cooperation in this field between the two organisations.

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