Institut PasteurInstitut Pasteur is a non-profit
private foundation which contributes to the prevention and treatment of disease through
research, education, and public health activities, in France and throughout the world.
On its campus in Paris, it comprises more than 2,500 staff in 12 scientific departments,
made up of more than 130 specialist units and research laboratories dealing with more than
half of all infectious diseases, and others working in particular in the fields of immunology,
neuro-sciences, cancers, and genetics. The Institut Pasteur has a world-wide reputation for
its ground-breaking research on infectious agents, immunology, molecular biology, and for
the discovery of the AIDS virus in 1983, and its scientists have been distinguished with
eight Nobel prizes and a great number of other international prizes.
James P. Di Santo
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