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News | 2022.08.05
Our own RNA triggers an immune response to viral infections
An immune receptor normally known for identifying viral RNA is also capable of binding to cellular RNA to induce immune defenses. This mechanism could trigger immunity against viruses before they become detectable.
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News | 2024.07.04
How coronavirus HKU1 forces its way into cells
Scientists have pinpointed the precise binding sites for the virus HKU1 in respiratory cells, providing a detailed picture of the infection mechanism used by the virus. Their findings shed light on other animal species that may host the virus and pave the way for the development of infection-blocking antibodies.
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Portrait | 2024.05.21
Philippe Bousso: harnessing immune responses to combat cancer
Philippe Bousso, an immunologist and technophile with insatiable curiosity, is constantly tackling new challenges in his efforts to combat cancer. Like the characters in the sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage, he and his team use cutting-edge in vivo technologies to observe the ways in which the immune system wages war on cancer cells. For Philippe, creativity and innovation pave the way for new...
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Fiche maladie | 2015.12.28
Shigellosis
Shigellosis, also known as bacillary dysentery, is an infectious bowel disease caused by a group of bacteria known by the name of Shigella. Infection is mainly characterized by severe diarrhea, often containing blood, together with abdominal cramps and fever. It mainly affects preschool age children, but can also occur in adults.
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Document de presse | 2025.02.12
Mpox: a better understanding of tecovirimat resistance
A virus originally found in animals, mpox – which causes the disease of the same name – is now circulating in humans. Since 2022, it has been the cause of major epidemics spreading outside endemic areas in Central and West Africa. Two hundred and fifteen cases of mpox infection were reported to Santé publique France in 2024. Tecovirimat is the drug most commonly used to treat patients infected...
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Article | 2016.12.09
Tuition fees
Tuition fees vary according to the length of the course.2nd year Masters students from the Greater Paris universities (Université de Paris, Paris-Saclay and Sorbonne Université) attending courses covered by agreements with the Institut Pasteur and other students from these universities attending courses as part of a doctoral module are exempt from fees.The "Student" rate applies upon...
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Document de presse | 2015.10.28
The Institut Pasteur and Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Molecular Medicine Partner to Form Global Genomics Center
Paris, France and Los Angeles, CaliforniaThe Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Molecular Medicine (CSSIOMM) and the Institut Pasteur today announced a partnership to establish The Pasteur Global Health Genomics Center (PGHGC). The aim of the PGHGC is to advance genomic research utilizing next-generation patient information systems needed to support the acquisition and usage of high-quality...
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Document de presse | 2023.02.20
HIV: third case in the world of probable cure after a bone marrow transplant
Forty years after the discovery of HIV in 1983 at the Institut Pasteur, 38.4 million people were living with the virus worldwide in 2021.[1] Only two cases of people being cured had previously been described: the Berlin patient in 2009 and the London patient in 2019. The IciStem consortium, whose members include Asier Sáez-Cirión's team at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Düsseldorf...
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Article | 2019.06.20
Cancer and microbes
Identifying and combating the risk factors behind tumor development.
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Document de presse | 2016.03.21
A genomic study of epidemic dysentery: how Europe exported a scourge worldwide
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and its International Network, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Cambridge, United Kingdom) and several international institutions have just published an exceptionally wide-ranging study tracing the history of the bacillus responsible for epidemic dysentery – one of the worst scourges to afflict humans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This vast...