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| Founded | 21 August 1920 |
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| Founder | Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma |
| Headquarters | Pasteur Street, Tehran, Iran |
Key people | Rahim Sorouri,[1] Director |
| Parent | Pasteur Institute (1920-1945, Independent since 1946) |
| Website | en |
Pasteur Institute of Iran is a medical research center located in Tehran, Iran. The institute is one of the oldest leading research and public health centers in Iran and the Middle East, established in 1920 following an agreement between the Institute Pasteur of Paris and the Iranian government. The Pasteur Institute of Iran was developed with the help of a land donation from Abdol-Hossein Farmanfarma.[2] Its mission is to support advanced research and to provide innovative programs in basic and applied medical sciences, and production of biopharmaceuticals and diagnostic kits with special emphasis on infectious diseases. It meets the specialized and scientific health demands of the local community and tries to establish a link between applied research and industry. Pasteur Institute is a leading regional facility in the development and manufacture of vaccines. The institute has a total staff of 1300 in its 28 departments and 5 branches in different cities of Iran, which are active in different areas of medical and pharmaceutical biotechnology. There are about 300 PhDs and M.Sc. graduates.[3]
This institute is a center that provides public health services and has played a significant role in the prevention and control of infectious diseases in Iran and the world during approximate one hundred years of its activities [4]
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- ^ Farmānfarmā, Abd-al-Ḥosayn Mīrzā, in Encyclopædia Iranica online [1]. The founding document is reproduced on Plates IIa, IIb and IIc
- ^ "Iran | Countries | NTI". Archived from the original on 2015-11-13. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
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