Given its global presence and in order to achieve its three missions of scientific research, public health activities and teaching & training, the Institut Pasteur cultivates a network of over a thousand partnerships worldwide. Among its partners are a diverse set of institutions, including research institutes, international organisations, private foundations, universities and other academic entities, bilateral and multilateral initiatives, NGOs and private sector groups.
Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs funds many of the Institut Pasteur’s international programmes and programmes that are carried out by members of the Institut Pasteur International Network. In particular, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs finances FSP programmes such as the FSP Meningitis project, and has previously funded an FSP project on antibiotic resistance. The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs also funds researcher exchange visits via the Hubert Curien Partnership and technical assistant positions within the International Network.
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Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
The "Support, Training and Capacity Improvement" programme aims to improve monitoring networks for influenza viruses (particularly the avian influenza virus) in Africa and South-East Asia and to carry out epidemiological studies. To meet these objectives, this programme provides appropriate training to ensure that support is available for investigations in the event of an epidemic.
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Ministry of Higher Education and Research
The Ministry of Higher Education and Research provides different types of funding for research at the Institut Pasteur. In 2008, its contribution totalled €47.3 million.
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Ministry of Health and Sport
The Ministry of Health and Sport provides funding for many of the major programmes in the Institut Pasteur International Network, one of which is an influenza programme in Africa. In addition, the Ministry of Health and Sport has financed the building of a new training facility at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) in Hanoi. The Institut Pasteur in Paris houses half of France’s National Reference Centres (CNR): these are partly funded by the French Institute for Public Health (InVS), which operates under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Sport.
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Harvard School of Public Health
In 2008 the Institut Pasteur signed a collaboration agreement with the Harvard School of Public Health (Harvard University) to formalise their shared work in the field of research into infectious diseases. This collaboration involves a researcher exchange programme between the two campuses so that knowledge and scientific progress can be shared.
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Bioforce
The Institut Pasteur has sat on Bioforce’s Board of Directors since Bioforce was founded in 1983. As part of their collaboration, interns from Bioforce can work at the Institut Pasteur International Network and researchers from the International Network can receive training from Bioforce.
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Wellcome Trust
The Institut Pasteur signed an agreement with the Wellcome Trust on 14 November 2008, sealing a partnership to promote immunology research and research into infectious diseases, tropical diseases and neglected diseases in humans and animals. The Institut Pasteur and the Wellcome Trust have agreed on specific areas for collaboration and will have an annual meeting to review how the collaboration has progressed.
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Riken
In 1985, the Institut Pasteur signed a partnership agreement with the Riken Institute, the premier research institute in Japan, and both institutes are still engaged in collaborative work. In Japan, the Institut Pasteur is also a partner of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Institut Pasteur researchers receive financial support from the Gates Foundation via calls for proposals for its “Grand Challenges Explorations” (GCE) initiative. The aim of this initiative is to support highly innovative research projects that can make a contribution to solving health problems in developing countries. The "Vaccine Discovery by Mapping Quasispecies Sequence Space" project by Marco Vignuzzi, from the five-year group on viral populations and pathogenesis, is one of the projects selected to receive funding as it responds to one of the foundation’s challenges (“Create new ways to protect against infectious diseases"). Out of over 3,000 proposals submitted, this project is the only one to have been selected from France and is one of only 10 to have been chosen from Europe.
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Amsud-Pasteur
A political declaration was signed on 28 September 2001 between the President of the Institut Pasteur and the Uruguayan Minister for Foreign Affairs in his capacity as acting president of Mercosur. A more detailed cooperation agreement was signed on 19 December 2001, establishing a cooperative network between 11 universities, research centres and research centre groups in the Southern Cone of South America.
At the AmSud-Pasteur General Assembly, which was held on 12-14 December 2002, it was agreed that Chile would become a member of the programme, and the Network expanded to include more than 40 centres across the 5 Southern Cone countries.
The specific aims of this programme involve the application of knowledge in the following areas:
The general aim of this programme is to contribute to the development of biological, biomedical and biotechnological research, as well as to the development of basic research, public health and industrial solutions at a regional level. Global experience has shown that the simultaneous development of high-level fundamental research is essential to achieving these objectives. Another goal of this cooperation is to create a network of universities and research institutes from the Mercosur countries and European research institutes.
* Public health: Developing regional cooperation with European institutes, via their international reference centres for infectious diseases, could create a sizeable support system for the epidemiological services in this region. At the same time, it will support the creation of centres to monitor emerging diseases. Collaborating with the European reference centres to identify and characterise many pathogens is vitally important for the countries in this region.
* Human resource training: This component will contribute to organising high-level courses in the strategic fields of public health, biology, microbiology, biotechnology, and the management of technology transfer and innovation.
* Development of regional biotechnology centres: Using the expertise available for evaluating and creating biotechnology companies will help such companies to be created and developed, and will attract investment.
For more information, visit the Amsud-Pasteur website (in Spanish).
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DNDi
The aim of DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative) is to support the research and development of drugs and vaccines for neglected diseases (such as trypanosomiasis or leishmaniasis). DNDi became a legal entity under Swiss law in 2003, and the six founding members met for the first time at the Institut Pasteur on 13-14 May 2003. The six partners are the Indian Council for Medical Research, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Brazil), the Institut Pasteur (France), the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Médecins Sans Frontières and the Malaysian Ministry of Health. DNDi works in close collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, and the World Health Organisation Research and Training in Tropical Diseases Special Programme (WHO/TDR).
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