Louis Pasteur’s research leads to the establishment…

Louis Pasteur’s research leads to the establishment of an institute for the treatment of rabies in 1888.

After developing the rabies vaccine, Pasteur proposed an institute for the vaccine.

Fundraising for the Pasteur Institute began in 1887, with donations from many countries.

The official statute was registered in 1887, stating that the institute's purposes were "the treatment of rabies according to the method developed by M. Pasteur" and "the study of virulent and contagious diseases".

The institute is inaugurated on November 14, 1888.

Pasteur brings together scientists with various specialties.

The first five departments are directed by two graduates of the École Normale Supérieure: Émile Duclaux (general microbiology research) and Charles Chamberland (microbe research applied to hygiene), as well as a biologist, Élie Metchnikoff (morphological microbe research) and two physicians, Jacques-Joseph Grancher (rabies) and Émile Roux (technical microbe research).