BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, May 4, 2018

After 100 days in a new post it is customary to compare the achievements with the original objectives and route map. When Stewart Cole began as President of the Institut Pasteur his initial task was to consolidate and complete the senior management team, the CODIR.  It is unnecessary to remind you that Institut Pasteur’s “raison d’être” is to perform world-class biomedical research and thus the first priority was to place science at the core of the CODIR’s activities and to appoint a scientific director with outstanding bandwidth.

The European Research Council (ERC) has published the results of its 2017 Advanced Grant call for proposals. Pierre-Jean Corringer, Head of the Channel Receptors Unit, was selected for his project Dynacotine (Signal transduction and allosteric modulation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: from ion channel electrophysiology to atomic 3D structures).

The Institut Pasteur is one of the organizers of "Lab Santé", a "hackathon"-style event on the theme of health, which will be held in central Paris from June 1 to 3. Whether or not you have your own idea, come along and join a team at the "Lab Santé" hackathon, where you can turn an idea into a start-up in 50 hours!

The latest issue of the quarterly newsletter for Institut Pasteur donors – the "Lettre de l'Institut Pasteur" (LIP) – contains a special feature on allergies. More than one in every four people in Europe currently suffer from allergies, and WHO predicts that by 2050 half of all those living in industrialized countries will be affected.