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News | 2017.03.28
Unseen Enemy, a film about our vulnerability to global epidemics
“What is it about the 21st century that makes us so particularly vulnerable to epidemics?” This is the question asked by the documentary "Unseen Enemy", broadcast in France on ARTE on Tuesday April 4, 2017 at 9:55pm. Moving across the globe, the film's director Janet Tobias met with doctors and researchers, including at the Institut Pasteur. Each one of them had stepped into the horror of an...
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News | 2017.05.10
Institut Pasteur in Cambodia: Tineke Cantaert awarded with a prestigious International Research scholarship
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has teamed up with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to develop scientific talent around the world. Tineke Cantaert, a researcher working at the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia is among the 41 international young researchers laureates of a scholarship awarded by a group of philanthropies....
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News | 2017.08.23
The Institut Pasteur in French Guiana confirms a case of yellow fever
The arboviruses National Reference Center at the Institut Pasteur in French Guiana confirmed a case of infection with yellow fever virus in the guyanese territory. The last case of yellow fever diagnosed in French Guiana, already identified by the Institut Pasteur, dates back to 1998.According to the Regional Health Agency, the patient who died on August 9 at the hospital in Cayenne had a history...
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News | 2018.04.11
New Pasteur-USP Scientific Platform in Brazil to tackle neurological disorders with a one health approach
A group of scientists are in the process of setting up the first crew of a research taskforce in Brazil, spawn of the University of São Paulo/Institut Pasteur /Fiocruz tripartite agreement signed in 2015. This scientific platform will focus on neurological disorders caused by either infectious agents or as a consequence of degenerative/progressive diseases. Both causes are growing problems in...
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Article | 2025.01.20
Genomes and Genetics
Exploring the genomes of bacteria, yeast, insect vectors and ultimately humans: that is the task of scientists in the Department of Genomes & Genetics. By investigating both simple and highly complex organisms, these scientists endeavor to shed new light on the nature of their genetic information.
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News | 2020.07.20
i-Lab 2020 competition: two winners from the Institut Pasteur, one awarded a Grand Prix
On July 16, the i-Lab 2020 innovation competition unveiled the names of 73 winners, which this year included the D4Zin (Grand Prix) and AVATAR MEDICAL projects, both based on research carried out at the Institut Pasteur and supported by the Pasteur Microbes and Health Carnot Institute.Sponsored by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and organized in partnership with...
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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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News | 2016.11.10
Chikungunya spreads in and around homes with women at highest risk
The mosquito-borne disease chikungunya seems to spread from infections centered in and around the home, with women much more likely to become infected. This finding was revealed by a new study conducted by the Institut Pasteur in Paris, in collaboration with the US-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh (...
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News | 2017.09.29
Three projects from the Institut Pasteur in Dakar and Madagascar selected for funding by AESA’s Grand Challenge Africa
The African Academy of Sciences and the NEPAD Agency’s Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) announced funding for eight African innovators to tackle maternal, neonatal and child health on the Continent. Among them 2 teams from the Institut Pasteur in Dakar and one from the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar were selected from among about 400 applicants from 20 African...
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News | 2023.01.12
Improving our understanding of insect vectors to curb disease outbreaks
A few weeks after the book Le moustique, ennemi public n°1? , published by Quae, Anna-Bella Failloux, researcher at the Institut Pasteur and co-author of the book, looks back on the Pasteurian expertise on vector-borne diseases.
