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News | 2018.03.20
Mamadou Aliou Barry, a lookout against epidemics in Senegal
Physician and epidemiologist, Mamadou Aliou Barry trained between France, Senegal and Laos. Since January 2015, he coordinates the syndromic sentinel surveillance network at the Institut Pasteur in Dakar. This network enables to detect epidemics of febrile illnesses almost in real time thanks to an early warning system.After high school, his classmates all wanted to do math or exact sciences but...
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News | 2018.10.17
Claude Flamand : predicting epidemics with satellite images
Settled in Cayenne for 11 years, Claude Flamand heads the Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur de la Guyane. Since 2014, this epidemiologist and biostatistician works with the French National Centre for Space Studies to predict dengue epidemics in time and space thanks to satellite imaging."Car, helicopter, canoe, we used every possible means to reach people everywhere in French Guiana",...
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Document de presse | 2019.07.11
High-risk pregnancy: the interferon effect
Discovery of a cellular mechanism involved in abnormal placental development during some high-risk pregnancies.High-risk pregnancies occur frequently and may be caused by various factors. It is estimated that 10 to 20% of pregnant women miscarry during their first trimester of pregnancy. Slow fetal growth may also arise as a result of maternal infection with certain microbes, parasites or viruses...
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News | 2019.07.17
The Institut Pasteur launches a Scientific Platform in the university of São Paulo Research and Innovation Center
On July 4, the Institut Pasteur, an internationally renowned center for biomedical research and a French non-profit foundation specialized in infectious diseases, has inaugurated the Pasteur-USP Scientific Platform in the University of São Paulo Research and Innovation Center (Inova USP) which is hosting 17 laboratories dedicated to innovation. This platform will focus on the study of pathogens...
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Portrait | 2018.10.04
Anna-Bella Failloux, an all-terrain entomologist!
Close to 70 different nationalities work alongside each other on the Institut Pasteur's Paris campus, and Anna-Bella has come all the way from Tahiti. She was born in Papeete, French Polynesia and lived there until the age of 18. This small paradise conjures up idyllic images but it is blighted by mosquitoes. Maybe that is why Anna-Bella became a medical entomologist specializing in mosquito...
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News | 2019.12.11
Anticipating and reacting quickly to outbreaks: a consortium won the Galien MedStartUp award
The Praesens Foundation, the Institut Pasteur, the Institut Pasteur de Dakar, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST) announced that the consortium is the winner of the Prix Galien MedStartUp award in the category: 'Best Collaboration Dedicated to the Developing or Underserved Populations Worldwide'. The consortium works together to...
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Document de presse | 2022.10.30
Institut Pasteur Welcomes New, Comprehensive Relationship With UCSF QBI
Two Academic and Scientific Heavyweights Agree to Implement Joint Actions Towards the Creation of a Center of Excellence in Emerging Infectious Diseases with Planned Operations/Locations in Paris and San Francisco. In a ceremony on October 21, 2022, the Institut Pasteur and UC San Francisco Quantitative Biosciences Institute (UCSF QBI) announced a new partnership for the joint establishment...
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News | 2023.01.27
Louis Pasteur Bicentenary Prize: five scientists honoured
As we celebrate the bicentenary of Louis Pasteur’s birth, the Institut Pasteur honoured five talented researchers. These prizes, given on January 26, 2023, reward achievements reflecting the “Pasteur ethos” in the fields of biomedical research, public health or innovation. The links between the Carlsberg Foundation and the Institut Pasteur date back to the end of the 19th century
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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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Article | 2017.03.21
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