This year, Pasteurdon celebrates its 20th edition. Over the years, the Institut Pasteur's major campaign to raise awareness and funds has become a highlight of the calendar, a key opportunity to emphasize the importance of research and appeal for donations from the public. It is also a chance to demonstrate the commitment of the entire Institut Pasteur community and reiterate just what can be achieved when we come together to tackle current and future challenges for the benefit of public health.
 
A special anniversary 

Pasteurdon is always an inspiring moment that binds the Institut Pasteur community together – and this year it will have an added resonance as it celebrates its 20th anniversary! Several events are already being planned to mark this unique 20th edition in various ways and get the entire campus involved. The focus will be on the discoveries and innovations that we have seen over the past two decades and that are increasingly creating a special bond between scientists and patients.

This celebration will be an opportunity to tap into the Pasteurdon spirit more than ever before, with more events and more faces to remind us of the crucial human dimension that drives everything we do.
 
The unique bond – the spirit of this year's campaign

This year's campaign will have an emotional flavor as we highlight the unique bond that is created between scientists and patients through current and future medical breakthroughs. This bond also reflects the importance of continuity, as past discoveries and current progress lead to future benefits for health.

Another key bond is the link between donors and the research made possible at the Institut Pasteur thanks to their donations. This year's Pasteurdon will emphasize both the importance of generosity today and the breakthroughs made over the past 20 years thanks to gifts and donations.
It will particularly focus on the major discoveries that are driving biomedical innovation and helping to tackle the diseases that will be highlighted during the 2026 campaign:

• infectious diseases: HIV, epidemics/pandemics, resistant bacteria

• cancer: breast cancer and immunotherapy

• neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer's disease, autism

For the past 20 years, Pasteurdon has had a clear goal: to give research the resources it needs to provide effective answers to the major health challenges that affect us all.
 
A strong visual identity

The unique bond and the many forms it takes will be illustrated in the campaign film, which was shot back in April and will be broadcast in October (see the June 19 issue of the newsletter). 

The bond will also feature in the campaign visuals. The newsletter team is pleased to unveil this representation of the bond between a young patient and a scientist committed to working day in, day out to find answers to the scientific questions and address the girl's health needs. Their shared determination is reflected in their faces and the slogan "You fight, so do we!"

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A special logo has been created for the 20th anniversary. You will see the logo in the news items about this year's campaign, and it will soon become a visual marker as we gradually count down to the events that will be taking place on campus in October.
 

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