Institut Pasteur du Cambodge

Established in 1953 and re-opened in 1992, the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) is a research institution operating under the auspices of the Cambodian Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Institut Pasteur (IP, Paris, France). The IPC’s missions are to conduct high-quality and innovative life sciences and health research on infectious and emerging diseases in Cambodia, to provide environmental and food safety, vaccination and medical biology services to the public, and the IPC also contributes to training medical doctors, pharmacists, veterinarians, engineers, masters and PhD students in biological sciences from Cambodia and internationally. As a member of the Institut Pasteur International Network (IPIN, 32 institutions), the IPC benefits from the dynamic network where 10 institutions are based in the Asia-Pacific region from Iran to New Caledonia.