July 04, 2025
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
New decision memos in July 2025
• Appointment of Jean-Pierre Vartanian, Head of the Academic Partnerships Office
The role of the Academic Partnerships Office is to consolidate and develop national partnerships to drive scientific excellence at the Institut Pasteur.
The development of partnerships serves to:
- Formalize and consolidate links with partners through the launch of joint units based at and/or outside the Institut Pasteur.
- Provide a framework for researchers from these institutions to come and work on the Institut Pasteur campus and also for Institut Pasteur researchers to spend time at external research organizations, schools and universities, in some cases accompanied by postdoctoral fellows or engineers.
- Identify scientific research organizations, teams and projects that can come under the umbrella of these partnerships, leading to opportunities for joint research units and researcher mobility.
- Develop links with universities, in relation with the Education Department, to boost the Institut Pasteur's appeal for future generations of scientists.
The Academic Partnerships Office, formerly part of the Scientific Careers and Assessment Department, is now affiliated with the Department of Scientific Affairs.
It is headed by Jean-Pierre Vartanian, with Sandra Bobichon in charge of administrative coordination.
The missions and scope of the Academic Partnerships Office remain the same. Industrial partnerships are coordinated by the DARRI, partnerships with the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP) and health organizations by the Medical Department, and international partnerships by the Department of International Affairs.
• Appointment of Michaela Muller-Trutwin as Deputy Vice-President Scientific Careers and Assessment, responsible for the Research Entity Assessment Office
The role of the Scientific Careers and Assessment Department is to implement assessment processes for research entities and senior staff and to adapt them to different institutional and scientific contexts.
The department is currently divided into three offices:
▫ Research Entity Assessment, formerly led by Didier Mazel (Deputy Vice-President);
▫ Scientific Careers, led by Françoise Dromer (Deputy Vice-President);
▫ Prizes, Awards and Visiting Scientists, led by Hafida Fsihi.
With Didier Mazel having been appointed as Vice-President Scientific Careers and Assessment, Michaela Muller-Trutwin (Deputy Vice-President) will now be responsible for Research Entity Assessment. She will work alongside Isabelle Porteret.
The tasks of the Research Entity Assessment Office will remain the same:
▫ Processing assessment portfolios for scientific entities (laboratories, five-year groups and units) within departments, in conjunction with the Scientific Council, with which it works closely, alongside the President.
▫ Assisting in the selection of members appointed to the Scientific Council (Institut Pasteur staff and external experts), on which the Board of Governors, acting on a proposal from the President, makes the final decision,
▫ Organizing elections for the selection of elected Scientific Council members,
▫ Requesting and collating appraisal reports and submitting them to the parties concerned,
▫ Overseeing assessment procedures for research entities to ensure that they are carried out effectively,
▫ Monitoring assessments of research entities: their launch, reconfiguration, closure and extension.
Read the decision memo 1453
• Closure of the Mouse Genetics laboratory
The Mouse Genetics laboratory (024323), led by Xavier Montagutelli, came to the end of its term and was closed on June 30, 2025.
Read the decision memo 1454
• New Mouse Genetics, Immunity and Infections laboratory
The Mouse Genetics, Immunity and Infections laboratory was set up on July 1, 2025 for a two-year period, which may be renewed once.
The laboratory is part of the Department of Genomes and Genetics and is led by Christian Vosshenrich.