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Our association has supported research projects and scientific activities at the Pasteur Institute of Brussels (PIB), by providing research grants to young researchers or recruiting (through proper funds), in behalf of PIB, researchers, laboratory technicians, computer specialists and others for periods ranging from several months to several years; our association was also in charge of the administrative and financial management of researchers and grant-holders having external funds;
 
The following table provides a brief overview of our interventions on the recruitment of researchers (masters), PhD students, postdocs and laboratory staff for the different laboratories. So we have been able to provide permanent and fixed-term employment contracts to 38 researchers and 25 laboratory technicians, doctoral scholarships to 19 PhD students, and fellowships to 4 laboratory technicians; moreover we provided financial support to 9 researchers and 3 laboratory technicians
 
It should be noted that the goal of our association consisted in providing a post to the doctoral students (after their PhD), in the different laboratories of the IPB, pending their possible recruitment into the statutory or contractual staff of the FPS Public Health. This has been the case for a limited number of excellent researchers. On the other hand a large number of experienced scientists who were recruited and paid by our association for several years, were forced to leave their posts because of the disappearance of the IPB.
 
 
Laboratories
Masters-Doct.students-Post-Doc (*)
Laboratory Technicians
Totals
Allergology
2
3
5
Antibiotics
0
2
2
Botulism
2
0
2
CelIular immunology
2
0
2
Cell biology
2
0
2
Cellular microbiology
5
2
7
Cytokines
6
0
6
Molecular micrcrobiology
7
6
13
Molecular pathology of tuberculosis
2
1
3
Mycobacterial biochemistry
2
0
2
Mycobacterial enzymology
7
1
8
Mycobacterial genetics
1
0
1
Mycobacterial Immunology
14 
7
21
Phage typing
1
1
2
Toxoplasmosis-diagnosis
1
0
1
Toxoplasmosis-research
3
0
3
Toxoplasmosis-vaccinology
3
0
3
Tuberculosis-mycobacteria-diagnosis
1
1
2
Virology-Aids
1
2
3
Virology-HPV
3
0
3
Virology-Rabies
2
4
6
Accreditation (in behalf of all PIB-laboratories)
3
0
3
Informatics (in behalf of all PIB-units)
0
2
2
Totals
70
32
102
 
 
The publications which have been realized during the period 1991-2009, thanks to numerous scientific, administrative, financial and logistic interventions of our association, cover several fields: bacteriology, virology, parasitology, immunology and infectious diseases. The different research projects include
 
- mycobacteria: diagnosis (tuberculosis and mycobacteria), paratuberculosis, immunology (development of DNA vaccines)
- cytokines (interferons, more specifically interleukine-6 and interleukine-11)
- toxoplasmosis
- antibiotics (resistance)
- AIDS (diagnosis)
- human papillomavirus (the virus that causes cervical cancer)
- gamma-delta cells
- DNA vaccination