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Key facts
- Founded
- 1887 ; 139 years ago ( 1887 )
- Founder
- Louis Pasteur
- Type
- Non-profit
- Purpose
- Study biology, microorganisms, diseases and vaccines.
- Location
- Paris , France
- Region served
- Worldwide
- Services
- Research, public health, training, innovation
- Official languages
- French, English
- Key people
- Yasmine Belkaid (President)
- Employees
- 2,780
- Website
- www .pasteur .fr /en
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1887
- Location
- Paris, France
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.428999.7 · ISNI 0000 0001 2353 6535
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- nonprofit organization
- Named after
- Louis Pasteur
- Official name
- INSTITUT PASTEUR
- Field of work
- educational institution
- Country
- France
- Founded by
- Louis Pasteur
- Headquarters
- Paris
- Chairperson
- Yves Saint-Geours
- Revenue
- 375590000
- Official website
- www.pasteur.fr
- Image
- Institut Pasteur, Paris 28 November 2016.jpg
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- IPv4 routing prefix
- 157.99.0.0/16
- Commons category
- Pasteur institutes
- topic's main category
- Category:Pasteur Institute
- inception
- 1887-00-00
- P6413
- Pasteur Institute
- social media followers
- 18400
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject COVID-19
- API endpoint URL
- idp.pasteur.fr/idp/shibboleth
- Egapro gender equality index
- 98
- total assets
- 1366906000
- donations
- 93935000
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Encyclopedic overview
Medical Center of Institut Pasteur, Paris, Rue de Vaugirard The Pasteur Institute (French: Institut Pasteur, pronounced [ɛ̃stity pastœʁ]) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax and rabies. The institute was founded on 4 June 1887 and inaugurated on 14 November 1888.
For over a century, the Institut Pasteur has researched infectious diseases. This worldwide biomedical research organization based in Paris was the first to isolate HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in 1983. It has also been responsible for discoveries that have enabled medical science to control diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, influenza, yellow fever, and plague.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pasteur Institute” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.