BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, February 19, 2016

Partnership

On Thursday February 18, Prof. Christian Bréchot, President of the Institut Pasteur, and Dr. Geneviève Almouzni, Director of the Research Center at the Institut Curie, signed a five-year partnership agreement. The aim of this agreement is to strengthen scientific cooperation between the two institutes, to pool their resources and to step up their training initiatives. The signing ceremony was attended by Rose-Marie Van Lerberghe, Chairman of the Institut Pasteur Board of Directors, and André Gauron, Vice-Chairman of the Institut Curie Board of Directors (on behalf of Board Chairman Prof. Thierry Philip).

memory

UNESCO's Memory of the World program was set up in 1992 in response to the idea that the world's documentary heritage belongs to us all...

Press

Why not fight the influenza virus by blocking the cellular machinery it uses for replication?

International

The Pierre Ledoux-Jeunesse Internationale Foundation, which operates under the aegis of the Fondation de France, is launching its 33rd call for applications in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur. The aim of the scheme is to fund biomedical research internships at one of the Institut Pasteur International Network institutes for young French Master's and PhD students and post-doctoral fellows studying biology, medicine, pharmaceutics or veterinary science at a university or higher education institution.

Carreers

Participants in this upcoming session will have the chance to talk with the physicist Mathias Fink, a specialist in wave physics applied to biomedical imaging.

Media Library

Have you ever been asked to measure your h-index? To find your publications? To assess the number of times they have been cited? This is the perfect opportunity to learn all about the issues related to the impact of your publications.

Human resources

The mandatory annual negotiations for 2016 between the Institut Pasteur management and the unions have recently come to a close, resulting in the signing of a memorandum of understanding with two trade unions. This agreement includes the following measures...

Fundraising

The fourth edition of the "Roulons Solidaires" campaign, now a firm fixture in the cycling calendar, came to a close on February 1...

Donors

The latest issue of the quarterly newsletter for Institut Pasteur donors, the "Lettre de l'Institut Pasteur" (LIP), contains a special feature on the new weapons that...

Newsletter

The Institut Pasteur newsletter team looks forward to seeing you again on March 4.

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