26 November 2024 | Faculty of Health, Press, Research
With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy – using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections – fell into oblivion. But as the current rise in antibiotic resistance is making it increasingly difficult to treat...
13 November 2024 | Press, Research
In cases of kidney failure, transplantation is the treatment of choice. However, the risk of rejection remains high. A better understanding of the immune response to kidney transplant rejection – and in particular the phenomenon of microvascular inflammation...
4 September 2024 | Press, Research
Following the success of the first xenotransplantation of a pig kidney into a human patient in August 2023, significant advances have been made thanks to the molecular analyses conducted by the teams at the Paris Institute for Transplantation and Organ Regeneration...
29 August 2024 | Institution, Press
Continuing the progress made last year, Université Paris Cité is now ranked 60th out of the 1,000 institutions included in the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (AWRU) for 2024, and remains 4th in France. The new Shanghai Academic Ranking of World...
24 January 2024 | Press, Research
People living with HIV need to take antiretroviral treatment for life to prevent the virus from multiplying in their body. However, for some people, known as “post-treatment controllers,” have been able to discontinue their treatment while maintaining an...
29 November 2023 | Press, Research
A numerical model of the formation, at low velocity, of satellites in binary asteroid systems was Published on November 17th in the journal Icarus by a research team from IPGP and Université Paris Cité. This model, suggesting the existence of “contact binary”...
27 November 2023 | Press, Research
Professor Alexandre Loupy, specialist in multi-organ transplantation, is awarded a European Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council for excellent frontier research. On November 23, 2023, the European Research Council published the results of its call for...
3 November 2023 | Institution, International Partnerships, NUS, Press
On October 23, 2023, President Édouard Kaminski and his National University of Singapore (NUS) counterpart Tan Eng Chye signed a partnership agreement to develop joint research and events in the field of women’s health. Left to right: Édouard Kaminski (President...
26 October 2023 | Press, Research
The analysis by the InSight mission science team of seismic data recorded on Mars following a meteorite impact that occurred in September 2021 drastically changes our vision of the internal structure of the Red Planet and its evolution. A study published on October 26...
18 September 2023 | International, Press, Research
Using a technique traditionally used in civil engineering, two seismologists, including Yann Klinger, a researcher at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, have highlighted the stratigraphic succession of major earthquakes over the past 2,000 years south of the...
18 July 2023 | International Partnerships, Press, Research
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, the Institut universitaire de France, Université Paris Cité and the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP) compared genetic data from 13,000 individuals with autism and nearly 200,000 individuals from the general...
26 June 2023 | Institution, Press
Édouard Kaminski was elected President by the members of the Executive Board, with 18 votes in his favour. Édouard Kaminski is a geophysicist and a professor of physical volcanology.A former student at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, he was recruited as a lecturer...
16 June 2023 | Press, Research
The tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus, native to Southeast Asia, is one of two vectors for transmission of the chikungunya virus to humans. Scientists at Université Paris Cité and the Institut Pasteur have shown that this mosquito can acquire the ability to transmit the...
23 May 2023 | Press, Research
Our liver plays a role in regulating our central biological clock, scientists from CNRS and Université Paris have discovered. The results of their study, published on 17 May in Science Advances, show that the biological clock of mice can be reprogrammed by inserting...
