Pasteur Institute of Lille


The Pasteur Institute of Lille is a research centre and member of the Pasteur Institute network.
It includes 14 research units and 1,150 employees including 626 researchers located in Lille, France. There are also 300 employees located outside the Pasteur site. Its revenues are above €70 million. Several neuroscience start-up companies have emerged from the Pasteur Institute of Lille.

Research

Since Louis Pasteur became the dean of the faculty of sciences in Lille in 1854, the research activities of the institute have been associated with University of Lille, CNRS, INSERM. It is in its premises that the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine against tuberculosis was invented by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin.
Research areas include