BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, November 23, 2018

On November 13, exactly 130 years after the Institut Pasteur was officially opened at a ceremony attended by the French President Sadi Carnot, on November 14, 1888, and a host of prestigious guests, the senior management decided to mark this anniversary by holding a high-level international conference on the theme "130 years of global health at the Institut Pasteur". We look back at a real highlight of this busy commemorative week, which also featured the Symposium of the Institut Pasteur International Network and the prize-giving ceremony for the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Awards

To give Institut Pasteur staff the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the draft 2019-2023 strategic plan and share their views, the Institut Pasteur senior management held a presentation and information session for all staff on November 22. At this meeting, the timetable and arrangements for the draft 2019-2023 strategic plan were outlined and the various priority areas were presented.

The Institut Pasteur will be hosting the sixth edition of its graduation ceremony, to honor the students who completed their PhD thesis during the 2017-2018 academic year either on the Parisian campus or in a laboratory of the Institut Pasteur International Network.

The fourth edition of the Scientific Symposium of the Institut Pasteur International Network, entitled "Combating Resistance: microbes and vectors", was held on the Paris campus on November 15 and 16. The annual event, attended this year by nearly 400 participants including many scientists, clinicians and public health experts specializing in communicable and non-communicable diseases, explored all the aspects of the fundamental, clinical and operational research...