The Pasteur Institute was founded on June 4, 1887. It is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, a forefront of the battle against infectious disease toward microbiology, virology and immunology.
“ | The Institut Pasteur enjoys an independent status and has numerous assets, with its research laboratories, technological platforms, teaching centre and medical centre, all located on one campus in the heart of Paris.[1] | ” |
Several Pasteur Institute scientists have received the Nobel prize.