CORONAVIRUS

Institut Pasteur coronavirus task force: a growing number of projects to tackle COVID-19

The Institut Pasteur in Paris and its International Network of 32 institutes have been extremely active worldwide in responding with science to the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Its response currently involves a lot of people at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and several teams in the network in other countries. A coronavirus task force was set up by the Institut Pasteur in January to coordinate COVID-19 research by its teams. The 16 initial research projects are regularly enriched by additional projects supported by the Task Force. Since the publication of the March 27th BIP, the SARS-CoV-2 project THERAMAB was added to the list of existing projects, a list which will soon grow to include 25 projects.

The 17 projects fall into six broad research fields:

  • Knowledge of the virus and its pathogenesis

  • Development of research tools

  • Development of diagnostic tests

  • Therapeutic research

  • Vaccine candidates

  • Epidemiological research

See the latest news on these research projects as of April 2, 2020

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