Welcome to the eTraining Portal for Institut Pasteur Vaccinology Course

The Vaccinology course, delivered within the framework of the Epidemiology and Public Health (EPI), is dedicated to candidates with a medical or scientific training background who are interested in all aspects of this new discipline: medical and public health students, scientific Master II and PhD students (immunology, microbiology), physicians, pharmacists, veterinarians and other health professionals.

Course information

The course is taught in English.
The objective is to offer an integrated overview of vaccinology, from public health and scientific data which justify the development of a vaccine, to its delivery to the populations in the context of industrialized and developing countries.

The course comprises the 6 following modules:

Vaccinology, an integrative discipline.
Immunological aspects of vaccination.
New strategies for the characterization of protecting antigens.
Preclinical and clinical development: basic principles.
Major infectious diseases: epidemiology, physiopathology, and vaccines under development.
Impact of vaccines on the control of infectious diseases: success and failure.

Besides the lectures, the teachers will ensure methodology workshops based on a partnership with the HSeT Foundation which has developed this eLearning website dedicated to the course. Personalized tutoring is also ensured.

For questions on scientific content or eligibility for the course, please contact Dr A. Phalipon (armelle.phalipon@pasteur.fr) or Dr F. Tangy (ftangy@pasteur.fr). Several fellowships will be available thanks to industrial partnerships.

Full-time, except Saturdays, from March 1^st, to April 2^nd, 2010 (examinations included)
Number of students: 24
Closing-date for applications: November 1^st, 2009

Diplomas

The Institut Pasteur Diploma will be awarded to students having successfully completed the final examination.

This course is run in agreement with the Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 and Denis Diderot-Paris 7 and a University Diploma may also be granted.

This course gives credits (12 ECTS) for specialisation "Infectious Disease Risk" of the "Mastère de l’Ecole Pasteur-Cnam de Santé Publique" (Pasteur-Cnam).

This course allows validating some credits from french doctoral schools (about modules).

Members of the Teaching Committee

M. Albert (Institut Pasteur), B. Autran* (Université P. et M. Curie-Paris 6), L. Baril (Institut Pasteur de Dakar), E. Coeffier-Vicart (Institut Pasteur), A. Fontanet (Institut Pasteur), D. Guillemot* (Institut Pasteur /Université R. Descartes-Paris 5), C. Leclerc (Institut Pasteur), R Moxon (Université d’Oxford), O. Ozier-Kalogeropoulos (Institut Pasteur/ Université P. et M. Curie-Paris 6), A. Phalipon (Institut Pasteur), P Sansonetti (Institut Pasteur), I. Saint Girons (Institut Pasteur), F. Tangy (Institut Pasteur), S van der Werf* (Institut Pasteur/Université D. Diderot-Paris 7).
* _{University Representatives}

Directors of the course

Dr Armelle PHALIPON
Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis Unit
INSERM U786
Institut Pasteur

Dr Frédéric TANGY
Viral Genomics and Vaccination Laboratory
CNRS URA-3015
Institut Pasteur

Further information about the Institut Pasteur and its activities can be obtained from its website

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Partners

Sanofi Pasteur
Novartis
GlaxoSmithKline
Intercell
HSeT Foundation