NEWSLETTER OF THE PASTEUR NETWORK FOR OCTOBER 2024

Pasteur Network Newsletter

October 2024

SPECIAL EDITION #1 - PNAM 2024

Pasteur Network Annual Meeting 2024 will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

More information - read the announcement

OPENING CEREMONY

Follow the Live Streaming on Monday 21 October 2024 - 6pm
(Rio de Janeiro UTC-3)

he opening ceremony will take place on Monday, October 21 at 6 PM (Rio de Janeiro UTC-3) and will be chaired by Mario Moreira, President of Fiocruz. It will feature remarks from key Brazilian officials, including Nisia Veronica Trindade Lima, Minister of Health of Brazil. Amadou Sall, President of the Pasteur Network & CEO of the Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Rebecca Grais, Executive Director of the Pasteur Network, and Yasmine Belkaid, Vice-President of the Pasteur Network and President of the Institut Pasteur, will also deliver opening remarks. Keynote presentations will be given by global health leaders, including Peter Piot, Professor at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and President of the PN Strategic Advisory Board, and Manoel Barral Netto from Fiocruz Bahia, who will share their insights on critical global health issues.

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ABOUT THE OSWALDO CRUZ FOUNDATION - FIOCRUZ

A member of the Pasteur Network established since 1893

The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) is the largest biomedical research institution in Latin America, also producing vaccines and medications to supply the Unified Health System (SUS). Linked to the Ministry of Health, it was established on May 25, 1900, to initially manufacture serums and vaccines against bubonic plague. Since then, the institution has undergone an intense trajectory that is intertwined with the development of public health in Brazil. Today, Fiocruz operates in 10 states, as well as the Federal District, and has an office in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, in Africa. In addition to its institutes based in Rio de Janeiro, it maintains units in the Northeast, North, Southeast, and South regions of Brazil. In total, there are 16 technical-scientific units focused on education, research, innovation, assistance, technological development, and outreach in the health sector. For more information

More information in the latest Pasteur Network 2023 annual report

Sofia

Acad. Georgi Bonchev street
blok. 26, Sofia, zip 1113

tel.: +359 2 979 31 57
+359 879 499 167
e-mail: micb@microbio.bas.bg

Plovdiv Branch

Cellular Biosystems Laboratory
Plovdiv, zip 4000
139, Ruski blvd.
Manager: Assoc. Prof. Vasil Georgiev, PhD

Metabolomics Laboratory
Plovdiv, zip 4000
139, Ruski blvd.
Manager: Prof. Milen Georgiev, PhD

Veliko Tarnovo Branch

Laboratory “Ecology of pathogenic bacteria”
Veliko Tarnovo, zip 5002
78 Nikola Gabrovski Str., floor. 4
Manager: Assist. Prof. Zvezdimira Tsvetanova, PhD

NEWSLETTER OF THE PASTEUR NETWORK FOR OCTOBER 2024

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Avec le soutien de l’Ambassade de France et de l’Institut français de Bulgarie

Sofia

Plovdiv Branch

Veliko Tarnovo Branch