Institut Pasteur Korea

Scientist in Applied Molecular Virology : Institut Pasteur Korea, South Korea

Institut Pasteur Korea (IPK), a part of the international Institut Pasteur network, is located in Pangyo Techno Valley in close proximity to Seoul. Since its creation in 2004, IPK has grown rapidly with currently over 150 people from more than 13 countries. 

Mycobacteria are clever enough to avoid destruction inside human cells

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a dreaded contagious disease of the lungs and other organs. The causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (or M. tuberculosis), infects roughly a third of the world's population and one-in-ten to one-in-twenty of the infected population becomes sick or infectious at some point during their lifetime.