On February 4, Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the French National Assembly, came to the Institut Pasteur to mark World Cancer Day. The visit offered a clear signal of support for scientific research and innovation for the benefit of public health, while also highlighting the crucial work of scientists committed to tackling cancer. 

The President of the National Assembly was welcomed by Institut Pasteur President Yasmine Belkaid, and the two had the opportunity to speak about the Institut Pasteur, the challenges facing its research and the main hurdles to advancing health. More specifically on the topic of cancer, they discussed how developing a detailed understanding of the underlying biological mechanisms can pave the way for increasingly targeted therapeutic solutions. Following her discussions with Yasmine Belkaid, Yaël Braun-Pivet then met members of the teams in the Cellular Plasticity in Age-Related Pathologies Unit, led by Han Li, and the Decision and Bayesian Computation Unit, led by Jean-Baptiste Masson.

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At the end of these visits, a press conference was held on the Institut Pasteur campus, during which the President of the National Assembly reiterated her support for "outstanding research with a global outlook, based on dialog between scientists, healthcare workers and policy-makers, and guided by the ambition to improve prevention, treatment and quality of life for patients."