
COVID-19 : Video from Stewart Cole - The Institut Pasteur Administration adapts to life under lockdown
"Dear colleagues, The Board of Directors and the Social and Economic Committee are two bodies at the Institut Pasteur that play a particularly important role. They enable the Institut Pasteur to launch new projects and monitor the work of the management team. The formal discussions I have with these bodies therefore serve as a guarantee of democracy. At times of crisis, it is vital for these bodies ...

The Institut Pasteur mobilization : new 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 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 ...

COVID-19 – Useful information: partial furlough scheme, Progressive Business Resumption Plan, Suspended activities, Teams application for all the staff, ...
Adoption of the partial furlough scheme Given the extraordinary circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that some of the Institut Pasteur's units and departments have been forced to reduce their activity, the Institut Pasteur has decided - following consultation and favorable opinions issued by the CSE - to make use of the French government's partial furlough scheme (known ...

A closer look at your daily scientific activities – "Scientific events": May 4, 2020 edition
The Scientific Secretariat General compiles information on the week’s conferences and publications, patents, funding opportunities, job vacancies, training and events that you may find useful for your career... If you have any questions, please contact: scilife@pasteur.fr Download the PDF of the "Scientific events" edition from May 4, 2020 Consult the archives

Registration now open for the new "Viral Hepatitis" MOOC
The Department of Education is launching a new MOOC hosted on the FUN platform and realized with the support of the Fondation IPSEN. Sign up now! Hepatitis is an acute or chronic inflammation of the liver. Viral hepatitis is most commonly caused by five viruses : A, B, C, D, and E. Some infections will resolve without any serious problems, while others can induce acute liver failure or be chronic and ...

Next issue on Friday May 15
The Institut Pasteur newsletter team looks forward to seeing you again on Friday May 15. In the meantime, enjoy the read!