Stewart Cole, President of the Institut Pasteur, announced in a video message addressed to all Institut Pasteur and International Network teams, that after the great success for the Institut in the call for proposal from Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), from REACTing at Inserm (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale) and from the European Commission, Pasteur scientists have now obtained 4 grants from the French National Agency for Research (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) to fight the COVID 19 pandemic, and more are to be expected.
Stewart Cole also emphasised in his message on the importance for all the Institut Pasteur collaborators to keep in touch. He announced the implementation of a « continuity plan » and new measures during the campus shutdown, reducing staff in the facilities to a strict minimum, performing jobs essential to the Institut and the fight against SARS-CoV-2.
