Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 : the Institut Pasteur mobilization

The Institut Pasteur in Paris and its International Network of 32 institutes have been extremely active worldwide in responding with science to the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Its response currently involves a lot of people at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and several teams in the network in other countries. A coronavirus task force was set up by the Institut Pasteur in January to coordinate COVID-19 research by its teams. Many projects are also being carried out in partnerships or with the support of other organizations. Here are the research projects now under way, several others are set to begin shortly.

All these projects still fall into six broad research fields:

• Knowledge of the virus and its pathogenesis

• Development of research tools

• Development of diagnostic tests

• Therapeutic research

• Vaccine candidates

• Epidemiological research

See the latest news on these research projects as of April 9, 2020