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News | 2022.07.08
Conversation: 2021, a pivotal year for the Institut Pasteur's future
Institut Pasteur Board of Governors Chairman Christian Vigouroux and President Prof. Sir Stewart Cole share their thoughts on the year's highlights. 2021 was a pivotal year poised between maintaining financial stability and supporting scientific projects.
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Document de presse | 2025.03.17
Hepatitis B: new rapid diagnostic test to halt mother-to-child transmission
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Kumamoto University in Japan, have assessed a new rapid diagnostic test to identify pregnant women at elevated risk of transmitting hepatitis B to their babies. This diagnostic tool could help eliminate hepatitis B by preventing mother-to-child transmission during childbirth, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Hepatitis B is...
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Article | 2017.09.12
Pasteur-Paris University enrollment 2018
The 2017-2018 call for enrollment of students in October 2018 is open.
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Document de presse | 2015.11.04
4th Edition of the Sanofi - Institut Pasteur Awards
Sanofi and the Institut Pasteur have attributed today the Sanofi - Institut Pasteur Awards for the fourth year in a row. Four major researchers with international recognition have been rewarded for their works in two major fields for global health: tropical and neglected diseases and immunology. Doctor Marco Vignuzzi - laureate in the Junior category - Viral Populations and Pathogenesis...
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Document de presse | 2014.06.01
Elucidating the pathogenic mechanism of meningococcal meningitis
Neisseria meningitidis, also called meningococcus, is a bacterium responsible for meningitis and septicemia[1]. Its most serious form, purpura fulminans, is often fatal. This bacterium, which is naturally present in humans in the nasopharynx, is pathogenic if it reaches the blood stream. Teams led by Dr. Sandrine Bourdoulous, CNRS senior researcher at the Institut Cochin (CNRS/INSERM/Université...
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Document de presse | 2014.08.03
The emergence of neonatal group B streptococcal infections explained
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS, in collaboration with teams from the CNRS/Inserm/Paris Descartes University–Sorbonne Paris Cité (based at the Institut Cochin) and the Wellcome Trust (Sanger Institute), have recently revealed the cause behind the emergence in the 1960s of neonatal infections due to group B streptococcus. These findings, published in Nature Communications...
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Document de presse | 2013.01.06
Retracing the evolutionary history and emergence of tuberculosis
In association with CEA-Genoscope and the Sanger Institute, scientists at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the CNRS, INSERM, the Institut Pasteur of Lille, and Université Lille 2 have recently determined the origin of the emergence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium, the main causative agent of tuberculosis. Researchers have also provided insights into its evolutionary success. They have...
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Document de presse | 2012.03.11
DENFREE: flying towards the efficient control of dengue
Comfortably nested in the salivary glands of mosquitoes, the dengue virus moves around and infects everybody unlucky enough to be bitten. But on the wings of mosquitoes, it can’t possibly go very far and usually stays within a restricted community… unless it “changes vehicle” and travels further away thanks to the infected humans. Starting in January 2012, the Institut...
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Document de presse | 2010.01.17
Accor and the Institut Pasteur commit to preventing emerging diseases
The Institut Pasteur and Accor announce the implementation of an innovative partnership for health information and prevention aimed at travellers. "As guests of the Earth, we welcome the world” Since 2006, the social commitment of the 4000 hotels and 150,000 Accor employees has revolved around the "Earth Guest" programme, based on eight action centres, one of which being the...
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Document de presse | 2009.03.30
Rabies in Africa : from its origins to the current fight
Today, Africa is the second continent most affected by rabies, after Asia. A recent study conducted by Institut Pasteur researchers retraced the origins and evolution of the disease in Western and Central Africa, and revealed that the emergence and the dissemination of the rabies virus coincided with the beginning of European colonization. In addition to its historical value, this research also...