A landmark Scientific Cooperation agreement was signed in 1975 by Professor Michael Sela, then President of the Weizmann Institute, and Professor Jacques Monod, Director of the Institut Pasteur. A joint association, the Conseil Pasteur-Weizmann was established, whose main aim and task has been to promote and support the active scientific cooperation programs between the two Institutions.  See also website :  click here

The Conseil P-W is led by Dr. Robert Parienti, Delegate-General of the Weizmann Institute in France and Europe and the Chairman is Prof. Michel Goldberg from Institut Pasteur. The Conseil P-W elects every three years a Scientific Council which consists of scientists from both institutions and the different programs and relations between the institutes are handled by two coordinators, Prof. Simon Wain-Hobson from Institut Pasteur and Prof. Michael Eisenbach from the Weizmann Institute.

The Scientific Council has established a number of active programs: (i) an annual competitive distribution of joint research grants; (ii) an exchange program of scientists for short term visits; (iii) a program to fund Postdoc candidates from one institute to the other, and (iv) the sponsoring of a joint Symposium which alternates every two years between Rehovot and Paris.

The topic which was chosen by the Scientific Council for the Rehovot P-W Symposium (March 30th-April 1st, 2008) is on the recent advances in Quantitative Biology. The Scientific Organizers are Prof. Naama Barkai from the Weizmann Institute and Prof. Benno Schwikowski from Institut Pasteur. About ten scientists from both institutes, together with three leading international investigators in the field, have accepted the invitations to participate. The Symposium will, of course, be open to all the scientific community and I wish to use this opportunity to invite all those interested in attending this very interesting meeting.

David Mirelman, Professor
President, Scientific Council
Conseil Pasteur-Weizmann