Christian Brechot

The Institut Pasteur is a private non-profit foundation which contributes to the prevention and treatment of disease, through research, education, and public health activities. The firm was founded in 1887, and is based in Paris.

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative provides drug research and development services. It specializes in analyzing the causes of and in developing medicine and treatments for neglected diseases. It specializes in the study of neglected tropical diseases, such as sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis), Leishmaniasis, Chagas, malaria, pediatric HIV, and filarial diseases. It develops a research and development portfolio that includes projects from discovery through to post-registration phases. Its focus areas encompass regional disease-specific platform development, technology transfer, and public responsibility and awareness advocacies. The organization was founded in July 2003 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Institut Pasteur Korea Research Foundation provides research and development for the treatment of infectious and chronic diseases. It develops a technology-based approach to therapeutic development through cellular models, high content screening and medicinal chemistry. The company was founded on December 29, 2003 and is headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea.

ScreenCell SA provides access to circulating rare cells. It offers rare cell isolation solutions for medical and research applications. The company was founded by Patrizia Paterlini-Brechot, Ian Jones and Christian Brechot on April 11, 2001 and is headquartered in Sarcelles, France.

Global Virus Network conducts research on essential and critical defense against viral diseases. The non-profit company is based in Baltimore, MD. The company was founded by William Walmsley Hall and Robert C. Gallo.

Rarecells Diagnostics SAS is a French company passionate about saving lives by detecting and eliminating cancer at its start. The company is based in Paris, France and was founded by Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company believes that accurate, early cancer detection has the potential to save millions of lives. Rarecells Diagnostics has developed the ISET blood filtration technology, which enables cell culture to generate xenograph of avatars. The company is currently conducting three clinical studies to evaluate the performance of their dedicated ISET-based assay to allow early detection of prostate cancer. The company is also developing a multi-cancer test for early cancer diagnosis and is working with researchers to propel care forward.