The Institut Pasteur is a private, non-profit foundation with recognized charitable status entrusted with four core missions of public interest:
- Research: more information here
- Education: more information here
- Health: more information here
- Innovation: more information here
The Institut Pasteur is a globally recognized leader in infectious diseases, microbiology and immunology. Other avenues of investigation include cancer, genetic and neurodegenerative diseases, genomics and developmental biology.
The Institut Pasteur develops many major international projects in partnership with the main international scientific authorities such as the World Health Organization, and many research institutions, foundations, universities and other private actors worldwide.
Since June 2021, the Institut Pasteur is a research partner organization, member of Université Paris Cité community (more information here).
The Institut Pasteur is also part of the Pasteur Network, a human and scientific community with more than 30 members in over 20 countries working together to help improve global health.
Institut Pasteur at a glance, in 2022:
- 2,934 staff members on campus Paris. Among them, roughly half are scientists (permanent scientists and post-docs or PhDs), a quarter of them are engineers and technicians and a quarter of them are administrative and technical support staff. Personnel are either hired by the Institut Pasteur (80%, including administration, maintenance and technical facilities) or paid by government agencies (20%, referred to as “OREX” staff);
- 78 different nationalities, 59,5% of women, 98% Gender Equality Index;
- 142 research units, 32 technological platforms and core facilities, 13 research departments.