Le 6 octobre 2008, le prix Nobel de médecine était décerné aux professeurs Françoise Barré-Sinoussi et Luc Montagnier pour l’identification en 1983 à l’Institut Pasteur du rétrovirus responsable du sida.

Settled in Cayenne for 11 years, Claude Flamand heads the Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur de la Guyane. Since 2014, this epidemiologist and biostatistician works with the French National Centre for Space Studies to predict dengue epidemics in time and space thanks to satellite imaging.

Since December 2016, Brazil has been grappling with its worst yellow fever outbreak for several decades. To date, there have been 2,043 human cases including 676 fatalities, mainly occurring in ten Brazilian states including Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. These two states, the most heavily populated in Brazil, had been free of yellow fever for nearly 70 years. Research by scientists at the Institut Pasteur and the Institut Oswaldo Cruz has demonstrated that the yellow fever virus can be transmitted via Aedes albopictus, the tiger mosquito.

Depuis décembre 2016, le Brésil a dû faire face à sa plus importante épidémie de fièvre jaune depuis des décennies. A ce jour, on compte 2043 cas humains dont 676 décès qui proviennent principalement de 10 états brésiliens dont Rio de Janeiro et São Paulo. Ces deux états, les plus peuplés du Brésil sont depuis près de 70 ans indemnes de fièvre jaune.

On September 13, 2018, the Institut Pasteur inaugurated its "Omics" buildings, which will serve to explore the myriad possibilities offered by the development of computational biology. The buildings will house scientists from a wide range of disciplines together with state-of-the-art technologies.

The Decision and Bayesian Computation research team, led by Jean-Baptiste Masson at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the observation and control laboratory of the cellular organization, at the Institut Curie, has developed a new software platform called DIVA: Data Integration and Visualization in Augmented and Virtual Environments.

Mohamed El Beheiry, researcher at the Institut Pasteur and Institut Curie, introduces Diva, a unique software platform that places users in virtual environments in three dimensions (video in French).

On September 12, the Institut Pasteur hosted a debate entitled "Sepsis – uniting to tackle a little-known threat", under the aegis of the French Ministry for Solidarity and Health. Sepsis is the term used internationally to describe a systemic inflammatory response to severe infection. As well as raising awareness of this unknown disease, the debate highlighted the measures taken by the French General Directorate of Health.

L’équipe de recherche Décision et processus bayésiens, dirigé par Jean-Baptiste Masson à l’Institut Pasteur, en collaboration avec le laboratoire d’observation et de contrôle de l’organisation cellulaire, à l’Institut Curie, a développé une nouvelle plateforme logicielle nommée DIVA : Data Integration and Visualization in Augmented and Virtual Environments.

Installé depuis 11 ans à Cayenne, Claude Flamand dirige l'unité d'épidémiologie de l'Institut Pasteur de la Guyane. Depuis 2014, cet épidémiologiste et biostatisticien collabore avec le CNES pour prédire les épidémies de dengue dans le temps et dans l’espace grâce à l’imagerie satellite.

Today, hepatitis B can be efficiently treated but the diagnosis tools to assess treatment eligibility are complex and their availability is scarce in Africa. To identify these patients, researchers from the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar have developed a simple and efficient method that could easily be implemented in resource-limited countries.

In 2016, WHO set up an ambitious strategy to eliminate hepatitis B. It also set a global target of 80% antiviral therapy treatment coverage by 2030.