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| Long Tradition |
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Over the past eighty-three years, the history of The Hellenic Pasteur Institute (HIP) is largely intertwined with the progress of our nation's public health establishment.The HPI is the brainchild of Dr. Arnaud, medical inspector and director of the Health Services of the French Army in Greece, who gave the impetus to create the Pasteur Institute in Greece in 1915...
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| Dynamic Present |
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Today, the dynamic presence of the HPI in the field of Biomedical Science and Public Health is worthy of its long tradition as a Research Institute in the Service of Public Health. The study of infectious diseases constitutes the main focus of the Institute’s research activities, with pioneering contributions in the field. At the same time, new developments in the fields of immunology and neurobiology allowed the Institute to contribute significantly towards the understanding of pathogenesis and the development of therapeutic strategies for auto-immune and neuro-degenerative diseases of the nervous system...
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| Prospects for the Future |
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At the beginning of the 21st century, HPI envisions its future by setting as its basic targets, like the maintenance and further improvement of its research agenda, and still greater achievements in the area of its acknowledged expertise (infectious diseases, immunobiology, neurobiology), with concomitant development of state-of-the-art technology, such as functional genomics and proteomics, thereby ensuring the high competitive level of its research units on the international scene...
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