Pasteur Institute

You are approaching the Pasteur Institute, a site that fundamentally changed how medicine is practiced globally. While it is now a sprawling campus, it began in eighteen eighty-eight as a single, modest building designed specifically to treat patients bitten by rabid animals. Louis Pasteur had successfully developed the rabies vaccine just a few years earlier, and the public outcry for access to this life-saving treatment drove the international fundraising campaign that made this facility possible. By establishing the institute, Pasteur did something rare for his time; he created a private, non-profit center where scientists from diverse fields could collaborate solely on the challenges of infectious disease.