The Institut Pasteur mobilization : new projects

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. Nearly 60 projects have benefited from the support of the Institut Pasteur. Many projects are also being carried out in partnerships or with the support of other organizations.

Part of these projects is presented on the pasteur.fr website and will be completed very soon. It is currently divided into eight broad research fields:

• Knowledge of the virus and its pathogenesis

• Development of research tools

• Development of diagnostic tests

• Therapeutic research

• Vaccine candidates

• Epidemiological research

• Modeling

• Bioinformatics

This week, several new projects led by the IPIN enrich all of the projects carried out to date:

- rBCG vaccine project: rBCG vaccine secreting SARS-CoV-2 antigens

- EPIC project: Investigating the role of apico-basal proteins during SARS-Cov2 infection

 

See the latest news on these research projects as of June 11, 2020