What is Pasteur Institute Kolkata?
The Pasteur Institution is a non-profit foundation which was founded on 1887 in Tangra, Kolkata. The institute devoted to the research of biology, micro-organisms, illnesses, and vaccinations. This is a globally biomedical research institute was the first to isolate HIV, which causes AIDS in 1983. It made number of discoveries that enables the science to control such diseases as plague, yellow fever, influenza, poliomyelitis, diphtheria etc. In 1908, 8 scientist of the institute have been granted the Nobel Award for medication and physiology.