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From October 5 to 9, 2022 Pasteurdon can also count on the unfailing support of its sponsor Alexandra Lamy, as well as that of these partner companies. New in 2022, in connection with the bicentenary: an auction of NFT* representing Louis Pasteur will be offered online. The sale, intended for the general public, will take place from October 8 to 20 via the Artspray website. An auction of these NFTs will also be organized at the Fab d’Agnès b on the occasion of an exceptional gala evening on October 5th. * NFT stands for “non-fungible token”, in French token non-fungible, that is to say a non-reproducible cryptographic token whose indisputable authenticity is stored on a virtual and free platform using blockchain technology. An NFT is therefore the title of ownership of a unique, digital or virtual work of video, text, sound or image, protected, traceable and tamper-proof. |
Pasteurdon is both a fundraising operation and an opportunity to share the scientific and medical advances of the past year. This research is carried out by 143 research entities which bring together researchers, engineers, technicians and administrators of 77 nationalities. These funds, which are essential to the operation of the Institute, make it possible to provide the necessary resources to all these teams to carry out their work and develop cutting-edge technologies in various priority areas:
Emerging infectious diseases
Brain connectivity and neurodegenerative diseases
Resistance to antimicrobial agents
Cancers
Vaccinology
Artificial intelligence.
These different themes are explored in parallel to meet public health needs in France and around the world, and are part of the 2019-2023 strategic plan of the Institut Pasteur.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TO FACE PUBLIC HEALTH CHALLENGES
Each edition of Pasteurdon highlights certain teams from the Institut Pasteur whose missions or research work illustrate the diversity of the projects carried out or the fields covered.
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FOOD POISONING Withdrawal of pizzas, chocolates, or even cheeses… Food poisoning has been in the news lately. How are food health alerts issued? Who carries out the analyses? François-Xavier Weill, director of the National Reference Center for Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella details the operation of this center located at the Institut Pasteur and whose main mission is the microbiological monitoring of these bacterial infections in humans. |
AUDITION By their scale and their consequences, damage to hearing will constitute, by 2030, the 7th most important cause of daily disability, according to the WHO. The Institut Pasteur houses a basic and medical research center dedicated to hearing. Saaid Safieddine, head of the Technologies and gene therapy for deafness team at the Institut de l’Audition, explains the work carried out to promote an integrative approach to the neurosciences of hearing and to develop curative but also preventive treatments as well as as innovative diagnostics of hearing damage. |
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MECHANISMS OF LONG COVID What is Covid long? How to explain the persistence of symptoms? This phenomenon affects more than 20% of patients after five weeks, and more than 10% of patients after three months. Hervé Bourhy, head of the Lyssavirus, epidemiology and neuropathology unit, discusses the work carried out at the Institut Pasteur to understand the mechanisms of long Covid, and how SARS-CoV-2 reaches the central nervous system. |
ORGANOÏOF BRAINS Create brain mini-organs from stem cells to study diseases of aging. Miria Ricchetti, Head of the Molecular Mechanisms of Pathological and Physiological Aging Unit, explains how these miniature cerebral structures are developed, for what purposes and possible applications such as the study of cellular aging. |
ONE HEALTH Climate change, urbanization… proximity favors contact between humans and animals and, through this, the transmission of pathogens. The Arboviruses and insect vectors unit is responsible for monitoring, preventing and controlling these passages of viruses or bacteria between animals and humans. Anna-Bella Failloux, head of this unit, details the challenges to be met by studying the mosquitoes responsible for these vector-borne transmissions. |