Announcement of the future establishment of the Institut Pasteur du Japon

The Institut Pasteur (Headquarters: Paris, President: Prof. Yasmine Belkaid) is pleased to announce the upcoming establishment of the Institut Pasteur du Japon (IPJ)

The Institut decided to launch IPJ to strengthen its collaboration with outstanding Japanese universities, research institutions, industry and public organizations to address a wide range of issues, including an aging society, climate change, marine pollution and loss of biodiversity.

The ambition is to become a world-class institute dedicated to fundamental and public health research on immunology, with a focus on both aging-related and emerging infectious diseases. This vision is based on both the Japanese and the Pasteur Network contexts: Japan, with its high rate of centenarians, offers a singular research opportunity to study the mechanisms of extended healthy lifespan and immune resilience; the development of research on infectious diseases in the specific Japanese context offers capacity building and funding opportunities to the Pasteur Network members in the region and beyond.

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