The digital education office is pleased to invite you to sign up for the third edition of the Medical Mycology MOOC, led by Olivier Lortholary and Dea Garcia-Hermoso.

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Welcome to the fascinating world of fungi, agents of major infectious diseases. 

Fungi are present everywhere! They play a major role in our ecosystem…as main decomposers of organic material, as producers of antibiotics or mycotoxins but also as responsible for human and animal infections. Fungi accounts for more than a billion of people suffering from fungal diseases resulting in at least a million human deaths per year! 

The overall arise of fungal diseases is mainly due to major increase of host fungus-interaction opportunity. We can acquire fungi from the community, from the health care system or from international travels in endemic zones. 

The Medical Mycology MOOC will provide a general overview starting from the basic concepts of fungal taxonomy & ecology. We will guide you through the different approaches for identification of fungi. You will hear about major trends in invasive fungal diseases as well as subcutaneous mycoses epidemiology, about new populations at risk, and emerging factors involved in the development of diseases. We will also cover topics related to antifungal drugs, and finally you will have an insight into the natural history of superficial and invasive fungal diseases, with a part dedicated to the HIV-associated infections. 

At the end of this course, you will be able to: 

    •    Outline the basic concepts of fungal taxonomy & ecology. 
    •    Explain how to identify fungi from clinical specimens and cultures. 
    •    Define risk factors involved in the development of fungal diseases. 
    •    Describe systemic antifungal drugs. 
    •    Discuss the relationship between mucosal and invasive fungal infections with HIV infection. 

Additional information: 

•    Opens on September 30, 2025

•    Directed by Olivier Lortholary, exceptional Class Professor at Université de Paris and Chair of the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, at the Necker Hospital (APHP, Paris), and Dea Garcia-Hermoso, expert research engineer and deputy director of the French National Reference Center Invasive Mycoses and Antifungals, Institut Pasteur (Paris).  

•    Animated by Aude Sturny-Leclère, research engineer in the Translational Mycology Research Group (CNRMA), Institut Pasteur Paris. 

Sign up for this MOOC

As a Pasteurian, you can now access at any time all the content of the 24 online courses created by Institut Pasteur. You can also take advantage of the free Digital Diploma in Infectious Diseases (DNM2IP). This MOOC is one of 18 MOOC’s labeled to obtain the diploma launched in 2019 and which already has more than 2800 registrants in all continents.