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Document de presse | 2018.06.01
Announcement of the 2018 ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science
Prof. Jean-Pierre Changeux, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, where he was Chair of Cellular Communications from 1976 to 2006, and at the International Faculty, Kavli Institute for Brain & Mind, University of California (San Diego), has been selected as the winner of the 2018 ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science. The prize is awarded in...
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News | 2018.07.02
Roman Thibeaux’s joust with bacterial armor
Countering the bacteria responsible for leptospirosis by attacking the "shield" they make to protect themselves: this is the strategy that Roman Thibeaux, a young researcher at the Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie is trying to develop. Born on the island, he left the South Pacific region for a decade before coming back better armed.Roman Thibeaux has been immersed in a medical environment...
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News | 2018.10.17
Claude Flamand : predicting epidemics with satellite images
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."Car, helicopter, canoe, we used every possible means to reach people everywhere in French Guiana",...
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News | 2019.10.25
Exhibition in honor of Jules Bordet at the Université libre de Bruxelles
On October 8, 2019, the Université libre de Bruxelles inaugurated an exhibition entitled "100th anniversary of a Nobel Prize – Jules Bordet". Developed in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur, this exhibition pays tribute to Institut Pasteur scientist Jules Bordet, who was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on immunity. The exhibition will run until December 21...
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Document de presse | 2020.05.26
COVID-19: the vast majority of patients with a minor form develop neutralizing antibodies
Teams from Strasbourg University Hospital and the Institut Pasteur carried out a study among hospital staff on the two sites of Strasbourg University Hospital. After observing 160 people with minor forms of COVID-19, the scientists concluded that nearly all the patients developed antibodies within two weeks of being infected. In 98% of the patients, neutralizing antibodies were detected after 28...
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News | 2020.01.22
SARS-CoV-2 : le rôle de l’Institut Pasteur dans la surveillance du virus 2019 n-CoV apparu en Chine (in French)
Dans le cadre de sa mission de surveillance des virus respiratoires sur le territoire français, l’Institut Pasteur mobilise ses équipes, notamment via le centre national de référence (CNR) des virus des infections respiratoires. Son rôle est d’identifier et confirmer les suspicions d’infection respiratoires aiguës liées au nouveau coronavirus apparu à Wuhan, en Chine, en décembre 2019, et dont le...
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News | 2021.03.30
Mobilization of the Institut Pasteur International Network to manage the COVID-19 outbreak: case study of support provided to the Institut Pasteur de Bangui
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and increasingly rapidly thereafter, the Institut Pasteur International Network has drawn heavily on all its expertise and resources to tackle this emerging virus and its consequences, particularly through its support of institutes based in low-income countries. All Network member institutes have been identified by their health authorities as...
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Document de presse | 2022.02.16
SARS-CoV-2-related viruses capable of infecting human cells discovered in bats in northern Laos
Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, several animal species have been studied to identify potential reservoirs and/or intermediate hosts of the virus. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur du Laos and the National University of Laos recently set out to shed light on the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and explore the potential presence of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in the natural environment by...
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News | 2024.03.19
Pasteur Museum: transferring the collections to protect them
As part of the work to restore and renovate the Institut Pasteur's historical building, the Pasteur Museum recently embarked on an unprecedented process to transfer its collections. This involves meticulously preparing the items so that they can be stored in dedicated spaces that are suitable for housing such valuable objects.
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News | 2016.08.10
Disturbing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Central African children
Nearly 59% of Central African children under 5 years, are asymptomatic carriers of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-E); one of the highest prevalence ever described in the world. These bacteria are resistant to every antibiotics currently marketed in Central African Republic.Alain Farra, Thierry Frank and Sébastien Breurec (1), from Bacteriology Laboratory at the...