March 11, 2016
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BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, March 11, 2016
The author Erik Orsenna, who occupies Louis Pasteur's seat at the French Academy, is demonstrating his commitment to the institution founded in 1888 by his illustrious predecessor by becoming Ambassador for the Institut Pasteur and its International Network for the next three years. Erik Orsenna had already shown his interest in the achievements of Louis Pasteur with his biography of the scientist, La vie, la mort, la vie, published recently by Éditions Fayard.
The number of obesity cases has doubled since 1980: in 2014, over 600 million adults...
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, CNRS and Vaccine Research Institute (ANRS/Inserm) have recently shown that some effective antibodies recognize cells infected by the human immunodeficiency virus...
More than 30 Madagascan and international scientists and clinicians met from March 7 to 9, 2016 at the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar for the official launch of the AFRIBIOTA project, an ambitious multidisciplinary research program to improve our understanding of chronic child malnutrition.
At the Pasteur Medicine Quarter-Hour sessions, two doctors give a brief presentation to Institut Pasteur scientists on the diseases they are involved in treating.
The three-year term of some of the members of the Institut Pasteur Committee for Ethics in Animal Experimentation has now come to an end.
The MAASC Department will be running a lecture on digital networking for scientists.
The media library will be running EndNote training sessions on Monday March 21, from 2 to 5pm (for French speakers) and on Thursday March 24, from 2 to 5pm (in English, for non-French speakers).
The Institut Pasteur's recruitment campaign for dual-education students for 2016-2017 has now begun.
On March 8, the Institut Pasteur campus hosted a ceremony to pay tribute to Daniel Iffla-Osiris, the most generous benefactor the Institut Pasteur has ever known. At the ceremony, attended by Dominique Jarrassé, Chairman of the "Friends of Iffla-Osiris" Association, Christian Bréchot, President of the Institut Pasteur, and Rose-Marie Van Lerberghe, Chair of the Institut Pasteur Board of Directors, honored the memory of this philanthropist whose generous gift in 1907 marked a major milestone in the Institut Pasteur's history, giving it the resources it needed for its future development.
Annick Perrot, honorary curator of the Institut Pasteur, and Maxime Schwartz, former President, will be signing copies of their new book Le génie de Pasteur au secours des Poilus.
The memo concerning the practical arrangements for taking paid annual leave accrued by May 31, 2016 is now available.