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Document de presse | 2024.03.28
Inauguration in Brazil of the Institut Pasteur de São Paulo, member of the Pasteur Network Network
On March 27, 2024, the Institut Pasteur de São Paulo was inaugurated by French President, Emmanuel Macron. As a member of the Pasteur Network, this institute, founded by the Institut Pasteur and the University of São Paulo, conducts international-level research in the field of health biology to further understanding of diseases and their impact on human health, especially in the context of...
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News | 2024.03.25
Tackling flaviviruses and preparing the European Union for emerging threats
The genus flavivirus includes several human pathogens, such as Zika, dengue, West Nile virus (WNV) and yellow fever virus, which persist as major threats to global public health. Yellow4FLAVI, coordinated by Giovanna Barba-Spaeth, Institut Pasteur, comprises 13 partner institutions and is supported by the European Union with with € 8 million. The aim is to use the 17D yellow fever vaccine as...
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News | 2024.03.19
Pasteur Museum: transferring the collections to protect them
As part of the work to restore and renovate the Institut Pasteur's historical building, the Pasteur Museum recently embarked on an unprecedented process to transfer its collections. This involves meticulously preparing the items so that they can be stored in dedicated spaces that are suitable for housing such valuable objects.
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Article | 2023.12.18
Interdisciplinary Training in Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Bioinformatics
This interdisciplinary programme, funded by ECDC, combines lectures and practical sessions delivered by multiple host institutions in order to enhance surveillance, preparedness, and readiness to respond to outbreaks.
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Document de presse | 2023.12.06
Plasmodium vivax malaria: infections may be largely underestimated in sub-Saharan Africa
Researchers from the Institut de Parasitologie et de Pathologie Tropicale at the University of Strasbourg and the Laboratoire de Parasitologie et de Mycologie Médicale at the Strasbourg University Hospital, in collaboration with King's College London, UK, the Institut Pasteur (Paris, France), the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar and the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have revealed how...
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News | 2023.11.16
Antibiotic resistance, or how bacteria become resistant
Antibiotic resistance is a major public health issue. Understanding how resistance works and how bacteria become resistant is crucial in helping us maintain the effectiveness of antibiotics against bacteria.
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News | 2023.11.14
Discovery of peritumoral stromal cells that regulate antitumor immunity
A team from the Institut Pasteur has discovered a new population of cells that develops around a tumor mass. This discovery opens up a new avenue of treatment for solid tumors. This offers hope for improving the treatment of cancers for which immunotherapies are often ineffective, such as pancreatic, breast and prostate cancer.
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Document de presse | 2023.10.19
Genes fuelling antibiotic resistance in Yemen cholera outbreak uncovered
An international collaborative research effort involving scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Toronto, the Institut Pasteur and Sana'a University has revealed the source of antibiotic resistance that emerged in bacteria driving the cholera outbreak that is currently affecting Yemen. The results of their research, published on September 28, 2023 in the journal Nature...
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News | 2023.09.05
HIV-AIDS: broadly neutralizing antibodies, stars of the lab
Highly promising, broadly neutralizing antibodies can react with the vast majority of HIV particles to cause their destruction by the body. However, the latter would have to be able to produce equally effective antibodies...
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News | 2023.08.17
ECOMORE 2: understanding environmental impact on the emergence of infectious diseases in Southeast Asia.
Due to population growth and economic development, our planet is experiencing significant changes in natural ecosystems that may lead to the re-emergence of infectious diseases. For 5 years, ECOMORE 2 project, coordinated by Institut Pasteur in partnership with the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, the Institut Pasteur du Laos, the National Health Laboratory (NHL) of Myanmar, the Research Institute...