The influential Pasteur Institute in Paris says it has suspended its partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences
The French president at the time, Jacques Chirac , attended the inauguration of the Pasteur Institute of Shanghai in China in 2004. , Beijing, and will cease to co-lead an institute in Shanghai,The Pasteur Institute of Shanghai was established in 2004 as a scientific partnership between France and China, focused on infectious-disease research.
A spokesperson for CAS said the two institutes have maintained a long-term and friendly partnership, and CAS has “deep gratitude” for the Pasteur Institute and the contributions of French scientists. There was much fanfare over the institute’s launch in 2004 — the French president at the time, Jacques Chirac, attended its inauguration. And its founding director, virologist Vincent Deubel, wasAt the time, China was not a leader in many research fields, says Hughes. But it is now an established scientific powerhouse, so CAS might not see so much value in co-leading such an institution with a foreign organization, says Hughes.
But others disagree that the news reflects a broader trend. “This is just an individual case,” says Ke Lan, a virologist at Wuhan University in China, who worked at the Shanghai institute between 2006 and 2016. Lan says the news is regrettable, and that the Chinese government encourages international scientific collaboration, which is still very active in the field of life sciences and necessary for infectious-disease research.
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