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Upcoming "Start-up breakfast" session on October 31

The next "Start-up breakfast" will be held on Thursday October 31 at 8.30am in Duclaux room, on the second floor of the Duclaux building.. We will welcome Professor Kevin Outterson.

Kevin Outterson teaches health law and corporate law at Boston University, where he co-directs the Health Law Program. He is the executive director of Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X), a global partnership hosted at BU Law that is focused on supporting developers of promising new antibiotics, diagnostics, and vaccines that tackle the threat of untreatable bacterial infections. His works focuses on the organization and finance of the health sector, particularly antibiotics and other antimicrobials that can degrade in usefulness over time through resistance. He leads an interdisciplinary project on the legal ecology of antimicrobial resistance and is an appointed member of the Antimicrobial Resistance Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control. During this Start-up breakfast, he will deal with « Financing start-ups for the discovery of new antibiotics ».

Do not miss the opportunity to meet a front-line actor strongly engaged in the fight against antibioresistance, a major health threat of the coming years and one of the three strategic axes of the Institut Pasteur.

To register, please send a mail to Dominique Franco (dominique.franco@pasteur.fr), or to Marc Chevalier (marc.chevalier@pasteur.fr).

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