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Document de presse | 2025.05.23
Launch of the European Vaccines Hub for Pandemic Readiness, a new European public-private partnership for public health-relevant vaccine development
The Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) of the European Commission, through the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) supports the establishment of the “European Vaccines Hub (EVH) for Pandemic Readiness”, a pan-European center dedicated to advancing public-health–relevant vaccine development. The Grant Agreement has been signed today, marking a...
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News | 2025.06.12
New identity: restating our commitment to life
The Institut Pasteur, an international center for biomedical research recognized for its contributions to science and public health, has reached a strategic turning point in its history. This has prompted a new visual and narrative identity aimed at strengthening ties with the public.
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Document de presse | 2017.10.12
Five Institut Pasteur scientists receive 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" Fellowships
On October 11, 2017, five young scientists at the Institut Pasteur received 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" Fellowships. Through their research, the three postdoctoral fellows and two PhD students are helping to advance scientific knowledge in the fields of child malnutrition, the immune system, vaccination, emerging diseases and psychotic disorders. These fellowships, awarded to...
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Document de presse | 2023.02.20
HIV: third case in the world of probable cure after a bone marrow transplant
Forty years after the discovery of HIV in 1983 at the Institut Pasteur, 38.4 million people were living with the virus worldwide in 2021.[1] Only two cases of people being cured had previously been described: the Berlin patient in 2009 and the London patient in 2019. The IciStem consortium, whose members include Asier Sáez-Cirión's team at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Düsseldorf...
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Fiche maladie | 2015.10.06
Viral hepatitis
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver caused by toxic substances or – in the majority of cases – by viruses. To date, five viruses have been identified that target the liver and cause inflammatory infection. These viruses are referred to by the letters A, B, C, D and E, and vary according to their transmission mode (fecal-oral for A and E, parenteral for B and C) and their aggressive profile.
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News | 2020.04.14
COVID-19, chronicle of an expected pandemic / Exiting lockdown or the sum total of all dangers
Professor Philippe Sansonetti explains that a lockdown was needed because social distancing measures were not enough on their own. He goes on to outline the conditions that will be required for a future exit strategy – but makes it clear that this strategy will not signal the end of distancing measures. This article was written by Philippe Sansonetti and published on the website "La Vie des...
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Document de presse | 2020.04.30
Revealing how SARS-CoV-2 hijacks human cells; points to drugs with potential to fight COVID-19 and a drug that aids its infectious growth
An international effort including researchers from University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Gladstone Institutes, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Institut Pasteur (Paris) unveils promising compounds for clinical testing against COVID-19. The study, led by UCSF Quantitative Biosciences Institute Director, Nevan Krogan, PhD, reveals that some drugs may fight COVID-19...
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Document de presse | 2008.10.05
Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008 awarded to Professors Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008 has been awarded to Professors Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency (AIDS) virus in 1983 at the Institut Pasteur, and to Prof. Harald zur Hausen for his discovery of the human papillomavirus, which is responsible for cervical cancer. Press releaseParis, october 6, 2008 “Twenty five...
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Document de presse | 2007.06.28
Chikungunya: virus target cells identified
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and CNRS have identified for the first time the target cells of the Chikungunya virus disease (the "stooped man's disease"), which is currently breaking out in India and Gabon. Their results, obtained in collaboration with clinicians from the island of Reunion, were published in PLoS Pathogens and in PLoS ONE. Press release Paris,...
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Document de presse | 2004.03.17
World Tuberculosis Day (March 24): The Institut Pasteur engaged in the fight
With a third of the world's population infected, 2 million deaths and 8.5 million new cases each year, tuberculosis (TB) is the number two infectious disease in the world after AIDS, without sparing France, where 6300 new cases occurred last year. The prevalence of the resistance to antibiotics and the emergence of multiresistance are worrying at the international level, and is a risk for...