June 30, 2017
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BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, June 30, 2017
On June 27, the very first ceremony celebrating the Institut Pasteur's inventors was held on the Paris campus, attended by Institut Pasteur President Christian Bréchot, Paul R. Sanberg, President of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Isabelle Buckle, Vice-President Research Applications and Industrial Relations, and Nicolas Torno, Head of the Patents and Inventions Department.
On May 30, the Institut Pasteur Scientific Council held a session during which it voted to appoint members of the Scientific Council bureau.
The Partnerships and Incentive Research Programs Department is pleased to announce the results of the 2017 call for proposals under the PTR and ACIP programs.
Every year, StaPa, the Institut Pasteur's association for young researchers, organizes a scientific interdepartmental retreat.
The decision by the World Health Organization to recognize snakebite envenomation in Category A of its list of Neglected Tropical Diseases provides a welcome opportunity to strengthen snakebite care strategies, particularly in Africa. More than one million snakebites occur each year in sub-Saharan Africa. Envenomations are estimated to cause 25,000-30,000 deaths per year in the region, plus a similar number of permanent disabilities.
The strategic priorities for training next year were presented to the Works Committee on June 15 and are now available for consultation on Webcampus. The broad areas outlined in the document will serve as the basis for the 2018 Training Plan, alongside the training requirements collected during the current annual appraisals and career development reviews.
Starting next Tuesday, get ready to burn some energy in aid of research! From July 4 to 21, for the sixth year in a row, the three-week "Roulons solidaires" campaign, organized in partnership with AG2R La Mondiale, will be held on campus to clock up the kilometers and raise money for the Institut Pasteur’s research.
Refurbishment work will soon be taking place in the cafeteria
