
Report on the symposium on the Institut Pasteur's scientific prospects for 2025
Dear Colleagues and Friends, The symposium on the Institut Pasteur's scientific prospects for 2025, held on Friday February 3, was attended by more than 250 people in the Émile Duclaux and François Jacob lecture halls. This day consisted of 14 high-level scientific presentations illustrating some of the major research areas that the Institut Pasteur will be focusing on between now and ...

Prize-giving ceremony for the 2016 Fondation de France medical awards : five Institut Pasteur scientists rewarded
On February 2, the Fondation de France gave out 18 awards of more than €400,000 to medical research teams for their innovative work over the past year. Every year, the Fondation de France and several other foundations under its aegis award medical prizes in recognition of the work achieved by research teams and as a means of encouraging promising young researchers. The 2016 winners included five ...

Hypermutative enterobacteria isolated for the first time in Côte d'Ivoire
On the African continent, diarrheal diseases are very frequent but their etiology is often unknown which does not allow an optimal care of the patients. Yersinia enterocolitica is a bacterium responsible for gastroenteritis whose natural reservoir is the pig. Well known in Europe, where it is the 3rd cause of bacterial diarrhea, it is, on the other hand, poorly diagnosed in Africa because of the frequency ...

Stepping up security at the Institut Pasteur in connection with the Vigipirate Plan and the state of emergency
At the request of the French security forces, the Technical Resources and Environment Department, which is responsible for security on campus, has amended the Institut Pasteur's security posture and adopted threat level "Vigipirate - Enhanced security / risk of attack". The Vigipirate Plan is a national security plan with three threat levels: vigilance; enhanced security / risk of attack; ...

Book signing with Philippe Sansonetti
To mark the publication of Philippe Sansonetti's new book Vaccins ("Vaccines"), you are all welcome to come and meet the author at a signing session held by the publisher Éditions Odile Jacob and the Institut Pasteur on Tuesday March 7, 2017. The book by Philippe Sansonetti, Head of the Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis Unit and a professor at the Institut Pasteur and the Collège de ...

News - February 17, 2017
View the schedule of the main calls for proposals Reminder: David Itier and the Department of Development (DDGO) Mapping Department (sccs@pasteur.fr) are on hand to help you identify the funding opportunities that match your research interests; The Grants Office (GO) has the expertise to complement your scientific knowledge and can help with the structuring and drafting of your applications. ...