Fondation François Sommer
News
2019.06.07
The Foundation IPSEN, an organization committed to promoting scientific knowledge among the general public, has become a new Institut Pasteur sponsor. It will...
Document de presse
2019.05.06
On a proposal from Professor Stewart Cole, President of the Institut Pasteur, Professor Pierre-Marie Girard has been appointed as the Institut Pasteur's Vice-...
Document de presse
2019.03.19
Antibiotic, Asthma, Autoimmune, Cancer, Intestinal flora, microbiote, maladie de Crohn, maladies inflammatoires, Immunologie, inflammation
Microbes colonize all body surfaces and help to balance the immune system. In newborn infants, gut microbiota is first conditioned by breast milk components....
Document de presse
2019.02.28
Malaria, which claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year – mainly children and especially in Africa –, is one of the leading causes of death by an...
Document de presse
2019.01.03
The seventh cholera pandemic has been affecting world regions since 1961. In successive waves, Vibrio cholerae bacteria have been accompanying humans in their...
News
2018.12.18
Entomology, the study of insects, is a long-standing tradition at the Institut Pasteur. Institut Pasteur scientist Alphonse Laveran was the first to describe...
Document de presse
2018.11.23
As tumors develop, they evolve genetically. How does the immune system act when faced with tumor cells? How does it exert pressure on the genetic diversity of...
News
2018.11.21
On November 15 and 16, 2018, the Institut Pasteur has welcomed nearly 400 scientists from all over the world to share their knowledge on the resistance of...
News
2018.11.15
For its third edition, the 2018 François Sommer "Humans and Nature" Prize has been awarded to the French Phage Network Réseau Bactériophage France, set up by...
News
2018.11.08
On August 3, 1914, war was declared between France and Germany. It was the most horrific and deadly war in history, during which alas, in Pasteur's own words,...