Pasteur Institute of Dakar

Senegalese biomedical research center

Dakar, Senegal

Official languages

FrenchWebsitewww.pasteur.sn

The Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) is a biomedical research center in Dakar, Senegal. The institute is part of the world-wide Pasteur Institute, which co-manages the IPD with the Senegalese government.

Description

In 1896 Émile Marchoux, a French physician and microbiologist who had studied under Louis Pasteur, founded a microbiological laboratory in Saint-Louis, then the capital of French Colonial Senegal. In 1913 the facility was moved to Dakar which had become the new capital in 1902.^[1]^[2] After French Colonial Senegal, the institute continued its operations into the era of Senegalese independence. The IPD is primarily focused on the study of microbiology and virology, specifically arbovirus; yellow fever was first isolated in Africa at the institute, and the first vaccine for the disease was discovered at the IPD.^[3]

Following the outbreak and spread of COVID-19, the institute began to work on developing a cost-effective means of testing for coronavirus.^[4]^[5] Furthermore, in July 2021 an agreement was reached between Senegal, the European Commission, European Investment Bank, France, Germany and Belgium to build a large-scale manufacturing facility at the Pasteur Institute for the production of vaccines against COVID-19 and other endemic diseases.^[6]

References

^ Liora Bigon (2012-02-21). "A History of Urban Planning and Infectious Diseases: Colonial Senegal in the Early Twentieth Century". Urban Studies Research. 2012: e589758. doi:10.1155/2012/589758.
^ "Institut Pasteur de Dakar, LBM, LSAHE, rage, Recherche et santé publique". Institut Pasteur de Dakar (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
^ "Institut Pasteur de Dakar Institut Pasteur de Dakar- QWeCI - University of Liverpool". www.liverpool.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
^ AfricaNews (2020-03-16). "Coronavirus: First cases in Benin Somalia, Liberia, Tanzania". Africanews. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
^ "Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test for $1 Could Be Game Changer". Bloomberg.com. 2020-03-16. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
^ Senegal and Team Europe to set up Covid-19 vaccine production facility.