INSTITUT PASTEUR: Today's Research Tomorrow's Medicine

With headquarters in Paris, 33 Institutes throughout the world, and ten Nobel Prizes, the Institute Pasteur has truly changed the world. This detailed and illustrated book sheds light on its activities, battles, history and plans for the future in scientific and medical research, public health surveillance, and the transfer of knowledge to future generations of scientists and physicians for the benefit of human health worldwide. French biologist and chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) transformed medicine and the lives of people around the world when he developed the first rabies vaccine in 1885. Two years later he founded the Institut Pasteur to fight infectious diseases - tuberculosis, hepatitis, tetanus, plague, influenza, malaria and other vector-borne diseases and many more. This international organisation has been at the forefront of revolutionary discoveries in particular the isolation of HIV in 1983 and progress in tackling AIDS that offers new hope for patients. It works on the importance of vaccination for protecting populations, the urgent need to combat antibiotic resistance, new treatment possibilities raised by stem cell research, the unexpected impact on our health of the symbiotic microorganisms living in our body (the microbiota), our ability to respond to emerging diseases and outbreaks across the world, and how unlocking the brain's mysteries can help us understand and treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. A big glamorous beautifully designed Abrams publication packed with extraordinary colour photos including laboratory specimens we would otherwise not see, diagrams, fact boxes and charts. 19 x 25.4cm, 208pp.