Pasteur Institute

The Institut Pasteur is one of the world's leading basic research centers for biology and medicine, with headquarters in Paris. It was founded on June 4, 1887, after its founder, the famous scientist Louis Pasteur, named.

In addition to his research activities, it advises the French government and the World Health Organization ( WHO) in our medical issues. It is engaged in the development and research of diagnostic and test procedures in medicine. The Institute is an epidemiological surveillance center and controlled outbreaks of infectious diseases worldwide.

Organization

In 1966, the Institute was reorganized. A scientific committee was established and as well as production and marketing separate research centers and teaching each other. The French government has today acquired a financial stake of 41 %, a third of the income comes from the activities of the Institute. About 26 % comes from donations and bequests.

Well-known researchers

Even the founder Louis Pasteur was a pioneer in the field of microbiology. Émile Roux held in 1888 the world's first lecture in microbiology. He and Alexandre Yersin found, inter alia, the diphtheria toxin. 1921, the discovery of the vaccine against tuberculosis by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin to institute extension. Jean Laigret wrapped 1932, the first vaccine against yellow fever. In 1936, Daniel Bovet significant contributions to research the anti-infective effects of sulfonamides. Pierre Lépine developed in 1954 one of the world's first polio vaccinations. Luc Montagnier isolated in 1983 with his group for the first time known as HIV causative agent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS and discovered two years later, the HIV-2.

Seven times researchers of the Institute have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine:

Pasteur Institutes worldwide

The establishment of the first Institute Pasteur outside Europe takes place in 1891 in Saigon.

The equally well-known Pasteur Institute of Brussels, Belgium, originally institute Antirabique bactériologique et du Brabant, was founded in 1900 by the Provincial Brabant. The coming of the Institut Pasteur Paris Nobel laureate Jules Bordet was there first director of the institute. From 1 January 1995, it was the Belgian Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Environment assumed until the Free State of Bavaria acquired in 2001, renovated in 2004 and the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the EU involved the rooms.

Today belongs to the Pasteur Institute, an international network of 32 member institutions: