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19 unusual facts about Pasteur Institute


Acetarsol

It was first discovered in 1921 at Pasteur Institute by Ernest Fourneau, and sold under the brand name Stovarsol (fourneau is the French word for stove).

Auguste Chaillou

He worked at the Hôpital des Enfants-Malades, and for most of his career was associated with the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

Bert L. Vallee

To date, twenty-five Vallee Visiting Professors ("VVPs") have been elected and served at Harvard, Oxford, the Karolinska Institute, and the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

Cape Roux

Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Charcot for Emile Roux, noted French physician and bacteriologist, then Director of the Pasteur Institute, Paris.

Clodomiro Picado Twight

Picado received the academic rank of Doctor in science in 1913, that same year he was admitted to the Pasteur Institute and the Colonial Institute of Paris.

David Prangishvili

David Prangishvili (born 1948) is a virologist at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and a recognized expert on viruses infecting Archaea.

Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

Iveagh also donated £250,000 to the Lister Institute in 1898, the first medical research charity in the United Kingdom (to be modelled on the Pasteur Institute, studying infectious diseases).

Frederick Stoward

He emigrated to Australia when he was about 15 years old, but later returned to Europe, studying at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, from which he obtained either a D.Sc. or a Ph.D. On returning to Australia he worked at the Royal Park Laboratories in Melbourne, before taking up the position of Government Botanist with the Department of Agriculture in 1911.

Gabriel Bertrand

He then went to the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he studied organic bases and amino acids under Gabriel Bertrand.

Harry Luman Russell

He went to Europe for further study under Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur; first at the University of Berlin, then at the Zoological Station in Naples, and finally at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

HIV vaccine

In 1984, after the confirmation of the etiological agent of AIDS by scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Pasteur Institute, the United States Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler declared that a vaccine would be available within two years.

INCTR Challenge Fund

The International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1998 by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) and the Institut Pasteur in Brussels.

Jacques-Joseph Grancher

Also, he was a member of the board of directors at the Pasteur Institute.

Jeanne Gerville-Réache

In 1910 she married Georges Gibier Rambaud who was the director of the Pasteur Institute's branch in New York City.

John A. Gilruth

In New Zealand from 1893, he spent three years investigating stock diseases, then a year at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

Malik Peiris

Malik continues to work at the University of Hong Kong and was appointed scientific director of the Hong Kong University-Pasteur Institute.

Nitazoxanide

Nitazoxanide was originally discovered in the 1980s by Jean-François Rossignol at the Pasteur Institute.

South African National Bioinformatics Institute

SANBI maintains current collaborations with institutes and laboratories at Harvard University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Stanford University, the Pasteur Institute, the RIKEN institute, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale and the European Bioinformatics Institute.

Synthetic vaccine

The world's first synthetic vaccine was created in 1982 from diphtheria toxin by Louis Chedid (scientist) from the Pasteur Institute and Michael Sela from the Weizmann Institute.


Felix Kopstein

In 1924 he transferred to Java, being employed at the Pasteur Institute in Bandung, while in the meantime conducting studies of lizards and snakes native to the island.

Georges Girard

In 1922 he was appointed director of the Institute of Bacteriology of Madagascar (Institut Pasteur of Antananarivo), a position he maintained until 1940..

Joseph Lennox Pawan

After studying at the Pasteur Institute in France he returned to Trinidad in 1913, first as an Assistant Surgeon at the Colonial Hospital in Port of Spain, and later as the District Medical Officer in Tobago and Cedros, in southwestern Trinidad.

Osman Nuri Eralp

He—for to continue studying for a post-graduate qualification—attended Sorbonne and Pasteur Institute.

Philippe Sansonetti

After a research fellowship at the Unité de Bactériologie Médicale headed by Léon Le Minor, he undertook a post-doctoral position in the laboratory of Professor Samuel Formal in the Department of Enteric Diseases at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. He returned to the Pasteur Institute in 1981 to the Enterobacteria Unit (Unité des entérobactéries) wher he started his own research group.

Ramón J. Cárcano

There, he introduced Polled Durham cattle, a vaccine against anthrax that had been prepared at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and an imported steam plough (becoming the first landowner in Argentina to use these innovations).

Sergei Winogradsky

In 1922, he accepted an invitation to head the division of agricultural bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute at an experimental station at Brie-Comte-Robert, France, about 30 km from Paris.