Research projects- PEPR MIE – 16 Pasteur teams funded

By Yoan Emritloll, Head of national division and Davina Meriaux, administrative coordinator

11 projects have been selected for funding as part of the PEPR MIE call (France 2030) for a total budget of 22M€.

Out of these 11 projects, Institut Pasteur coordinates and/or participate to 8 projects with an overall funding of 3.36M€.

Institut Pasteur coordinates the following projects:

• 3D-LUNGO (Deciphering the susceptibility to respiratory viruses in reconstructed 3D tissues): Lisa Chakrabarti (C); Samy Gobaa (P).

• COPAFLICT (Decipher the pathogenesis of Lassa fever to identify innovative therapeutic targets): Sylvain Baize (C); Nathalie Jolly (P); Marie-Agnès Dillies (P)

• ACME (Improving acceptability of response measures against emerging epidemic diseases): Judith Mueller (C) et Leonard Heyerdahl (P)

• TICKRISK (Co-developing preparedness and risk communication: Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever knowledge, politics, experience on European borderlands): Tamara Giles-Vernick (C); Sarah Bonnet (P)

Institut Pasteur is a partner in the following projects:

• CAZIKANO (Preventing and controlling infectious risk of contemporary African Zika virus strains): Louis Lambrechts (P); Nolwenn Jouvenet (P)

• DEBS-Plague (Deciphering the environmental, biological, and societal factors driving the risk of plague reemergence in France): Javier Pizarro-Cerda (P)

• LSDengue (Looking into severe dengue: determinants of dengue severity in French overseas territories): Lluis Quintana-Murci (P); Myrielle Dupont-Rouzeyrol, IP New Caledonia (P); Dominique Rousset, IP Guyana (P)

• Sisp&Eau (Integrative Surveillance in Primary Care and WasteWater): Etienne Simon-Lorriere (P)

To find out more, read the press release

Legend: C : coordinator / P : partner