BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, September 25, 2020

Press

Cocaine addiction is a chronic disorder with a high rate of relapse for which no effective treatment is currently available. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, Inserm and the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP) recently demonstrated that two gene mutations involved in the conformation of nicotinic receptors in the brain appear to play a role in various aspects of cocaine addiction.

Pasteurdon

Ten years ago, Alexandra Lamy joined forces with the Institut Pasteur as patron of Pasteurdon to raise public awareness of the need for donations to advance research. The press kit produced for the event and distributed this week features an interview with Alexandra Lamy in which she talks about why she decided to support Pasteurdon ...

Pasteurdon

Once again this year, the pasteurdon.fr website has been given a makeover and brought up to date with the latest news about the upcoming edition.

Pasteurdon

An unprecedented context calls for unprecedented measures – a unique launch event for a unique campaign!
This year, the Pasteurdon launch event on October 7 will be an entirely online affair.

Scientific events

The Scientific Secretariat General compiles information on the week’s conferences and publications, patents, funding opportunities, job vacancies, training and events that you may find useful for your career...

 

Research

Do you want to work with human samples already collected in France or abroad? Contracts, declarations, import authorization, GDPR, compliance with the perimeter of consent ... many steps which can appear complex and tedious, are necessary before any reception of human samples.

IT

The Information Systems Department would like to inform you of a change to the mechanism in the email system that enables you to check any external emails considered by the current filtering system as spam but which may have been wrongly classified (“false positives”).