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Document de presse | 2015.12.15
Sepsis: cell therapy to repair muscle long-term impairment
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Paris Descartes University, Sainte-Anne Hospital and the CNRS have recently published a paper in Nature Communications in which they reveal mayor players in the severe muscle damage caused by sepsis, or septicemia, which explains why many patients suffer debilitating muscle impairment long-term after recovery. They propose a therapeutic approach based on...
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Document de presse | 2015.12.21
The mechanism of an AIDS vaccine candidate filmed in vivo
Using innovative technology, scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm have filmed in vivo the process by which an AIDS vaccine candidate, developed by the French Vaccine Research Institute and the ANRS, triggers the immune response. This previously unseen footage clearly shows how the vaccine recruits the immune cells needed to destroy infected cells. These results, published in the...
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Document de presse | 2014.11.11
Sanofi - Institut Pasteur Awards 2014
Paris, France - November 13, 2014 - Sanofi and the Institut Pasteur awarded the Sanofi - Institut Pasteur awards for the third consecutive year. Four internationally renowned researchers were honored today for their work carried out in two major fields concerning world health: neglected tropical diseases and immunology.Press releaseNovember 13th, 2014 Created in 2012, these awards encourage...
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Document de presse | 2014.11.19
A major step forward in fight against Chikungunya fever: Themis Bioscience’s vaccine candidate successful in phase 1
Results presented at international conferences in Philadelphia and in New Orleans. The induction of neutralizing antibodies by a prophylactic Chikungunya vaccine candidate has now been confirmed by the final results of a phase 1 clinical trial, as well as its tolerability and safety. Detailed information of the trial has been presented at two international conferences. The vaccine candidate was...
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Document de presse | 2014.11.26
Ebola: a new Institut Pasteur is soon to be created in Guinea
Pr Christian Bréchot, President of the Institut Pasteur, will be in Guinea Friday 28th November 2014, alongside François Hollande, President of the French Republic. Two agreements will be signed, one with the government of Guinea and the other one with the French Agency for Development (AFD), allowing for the creation of a new Pasteur Institute in Conakry in late 2016. On Saturday 29th, Pr....
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Document de presse | 2014.12.03
Institut Pasteur Graduation Ceremony 2014
The Institut Pasteur will host on the 12th of December 2014 the 2nd ceremony in honor of its graduating PhD class, with the Doctors having defended in 2013-2014. This ceremony will be chaired by Pr Christian Bréchot, President of the Institut Pasteur. It will be held in presence of Jean-Philippe Pierre, deputy mayor of the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Press release Paris,...
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Document de presse | 2014.12.11
Malaria: formal identification of the artemisinin resistance gene
Together with teams from Columbia University (USA), CNRS in Toulouse and NIH/NIAID (USA), Institut Pasteur scientists based in Paris and Cambodia have recently provided the key demonstration that K13 is indeed the main determinant of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum parasites. This work is a landmark for the scientific community, as it provides a validated molecular marker for...
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Document de presse | 2013.12.18
Molecular marker discovered for detecting artemisinin-resistant forms of malaria
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIAID/NIH) have identified a molecular marker for detecting malaria parasites with resistance to artemisinin derivatives (major components in antimalarial medicine or drug treatments currently recommended by the World...
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Document de presse | 2014.01.23
A new bacterial mechanism for evading the immune system
A team of scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and Paris Diderot University has identified a new regulation mechanism that enables a pathogenic bacterium of the Streptococcus genus to rapidly adapt to its host. This study was published on January 16, 2014 in PLoS Pathogens. The mechanism in question enables the bacterium to minimize its exposure to the immune system while maintaining...
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Document de presse | 2014.02.04
Genomics challenges long-held beliefs surrounding the role of agriculture in African history
An extensive genomic study of pygmy hunter-gatherer populations and agricultural village communities, conducted in Central Africa by scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in collaboration with the French National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), the University of Montreal and the University of Lyon 2, challenges the established...
