It is with profound sadness that we have just learned of the untimely death of Professor Anatoly ZHEBRUN, Director of the Institut Pasteur of Saint Petersburg.
After studying at the Academy of Military Medicine in Saint Petersburg in 1965, Anatoly ZHEBRUN embarked on a career as Naval Health Physician in north-western Russia. Specialising in Immunology, Microbiology and Public Health, he joined the Institut Pasteur of Saint Petersburg as a Researcher in 1977. He was appointed the institute's Director General in 1994.