Institut Pasteur response to the pandemic: launch of a new project presentation space on pasteur.fr to boost the public visibility of COVID-19 research

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. Nearly 60 projects have benefited from the support of the Institut Pasteur. Many projects are also being carried out in partnerships or with the support of other organizations.

Some of these projects are presented on the pasteur.fr website and new research will be added on a regular basis. It is currently divided into eight broad research fields:

• Knowledge of the virus and its pathogenesis

• Development of research tools

• Development of diagnostic tests

• Therapeutic research

• Vaccine candidates

• Epidemiological research

• Modeling

• Bioinformatics

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Institut Pasteur has been committed to informing the public, and especially the online community, about the latest advances in COVID-19 research. To this end, a new more user-friendly space, better suited to the current research fields, will be available via the pasteur.fr home page from next week.

In the meantime, you can consult the latest news about the ongoing research as of June 18, 2020