Institut Pasteur coronavirus task force: find out about the 16 ongoing research projects

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 300 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. Sixteen research projects are now under way, and several other projects submitted to the task force are set to begin shortly.

The 16 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 March 24, 2020)