Latest News--Shanghai Institut of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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2010-07

French Minister of Higher Education and Research Visits IPS

Mrs. Valérie Pécresse, French Minister of Higher Education and Research visited Institut Pasteur of Shanghai (IPS) on July 6.
　　On a brief introduction of IPS, Prof. SUN Bing, Co-Director presented IPS’s mission, research focuses and achievements. IPS conducts basic research in combining vir...

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2010-06

New international partnership to fight viruses

Institut Pasteur Shanghai today signed a partnership agreement with the Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics.
　　The pair will strengthen collaborative drug research and development between Australia and China, positioning themselves as leaders in drug discovery and consolidate their r...

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2010-05

French Minister of Health visited IPS

As an example of team spirit of IPS,he introduced the creation of a task force at IPS to fight against Hand Foot and Mouth Disease which has infected nearly half a million and killed 260 children in China this year. Altmeyer stressed that in light of the growing importance of China in the scienti...On May 11, Mrs. Roselyne Bachelot, French Minister of Health and Sports visited Institut Pasteur of Shanghai (IPS), together with Mr. Hervé Ladsous, Ambassador of France in China and Mr. Thierry Mathou, General Consulate of France in Shanghai.
　　On a brief introduction of IPS, Prof. Ralf Altme...

06

2010-05

The replication mechanism of Hepatitis C virus in cultured cells was revealed

In the presence of the N3H region and 3In the presence of the N3H region and 3’untranslated region(UTR)of JFH-1,a combination of A450S,R517K and Y561F was sufficient to confer HCV genome replication activity and virus production ability to J6CF in cultured cells(Fig. 2).Y561F was found to be enc...On April 30, 2010, the 《Plos pathogens》has published online the research progress on the replication mechanism of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in cultured cells. This was a collaborative work done by Prof. Takaji Wakita’s group in NIH, Japan and Prof. Tetsuya Toyoda’s group in Institut Pasteur of ...