Institut Pasteur de Lille

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Institut Pasteur de Lille

The Institut Pasteur de Lille (Pasteur-Lille) is a research centre, membre of the Pasteur Institute network. It includes 14 research units, 1150 employees including 626 researchers located in Lille (France). 300 employees located outside the Pasteur site come in addition. Its revenues are above 70 million Euros. Several start-up companies in neuro-sciences have emerged from the Institut Pasteur de Lille.

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Since Louis Pasteur became the dean of the faculty of sciences in Lille in 1854, the research activities of the Institut Pasteur de Lille have been associated with medical faculties of the Université Lille Nord de France (campus Lille 2 University of Health and Law). It is in its premises that the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis was invented by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin.

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