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Nov 19, 2025 Alexandre Legrand, Rémi Demeure, Amandine Chantharath, Carine Rey, Julie Baltenneck, Cameron L. M. Gilchrist, Joana L. Rocha, Clara Loyer, Léa Picard, Andrea Cimarelli, Martin Steinegger, Francois Rousset, Peter H. Sudmant and Lucie Etienne
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Nov 03, 2025 Two recent papers, resulting from international collaborations between Bénédicte PY, DR INSERM, NLRP3 Team, and BioAge Labs in the US, R. Coll in Ireland, M. Geyer in Germany, and R. Karki in Korea, are featured in a joint highlight in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery: www.nature.com/articles/d41
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Oct 23, 2025 Peter Sudmant (UC Berkeley, USA), David Enard (Univ. Arizona, USA) and Lucie Etienne (CIRI, CNRS / ENS Lyon, France) are inviting you to register for the “Host adaptations to viral infections” Meeting that they are organizing from May 10th to May 13th 2026.
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Oct 07, 2025 Le CIRI compte 12 projets qui ont été retenus pour un financement dans le cadre de l'appel à projets générique ANR 2025. Nous vous en faisons découvrir les détails ici.
Understanding infectious diseases to better control them
The Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI) is a joint research unit of the Lyon 1 University, Inserm, CNRS and the ENS de Lyon in partnership with VetAgro Sup, the Institut Pasteur and the Hospices Civils de Lyon. The CIRI gathers the scientific and medical research communities with complementary disciplinary backgrounds grouped in 3 specialties working together with the objective to understand host-microbe interactions to better fight infectious diseases.
Discover the CIRI: General presentation, Teams, Teaching, Clinical research, Organization, The 3 specialties and Transversal projects, Jobs and internship offers, Contact & Localization.
- Three specialities working together
- Publications
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Nov 19, 2025
Evolutionary characterization of antiviral SAMD9/9L across kingdoms supports ancient convergence and lineage-specific adaptations
Alexandre Legrand, Rémi Demeure, Amandine Chantharath, Carine Rey, Julie Baltenneck, Cameron L. M. Gilchrist, Joana L. Rocha, Clara Loyer, Léa (...)
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Oct 16, 2025
Urban environment and RSV: a retrospective observational study of neighbourhood factors associated with the risk of severe disease in the infant population of a metropolitan area, Lyon, France
Publications of RSV Study Group Lyon
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Sep 22, 2025
Interleukins 15 and 18 synergistically prime the antitumor function of natural killer cells through noncanonical activation of mTORC1
Natural killer (NK) cells have antitumor activity that is primed by IL-15 and IL-18, components of a cytokine cocktail used in NK cell–based cancer (...)
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Nov 03, 2025
International collaborations: 2 papers are featured in a joint highlight in Nature Reviews
Two recent papers, resulting from international collaborations between Bénédicte PY, DR INSERM, NLRP3 Team, and BioAge Labs in the US, R. Coll in (...)
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May 12, 2025
TRIM proteins: A ‘swiss army knife’ of antiviral immunity
Chabot et al., Plos Pathogens, 2025 / Team HepVir
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Mar 24, 2023
Covid-19: infection-vaccination combination best protects against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2
Several CIRI teams carried out this work, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Articles
Revues
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Dec 09, 2025 séminaire CIRI : Mathias PERCIPALLE (09.12.2025)
“ Structure par cryoEM des virions HTLV-1 présent dans le biofilm viral ”
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Dec 17, 2025 séminaire CIRI : Pr. Miles W CARROLL (17.12.2025)
“ EBOV : Outbreaks, molecular epidemiology, immunity, persistence and surveillance ”
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Dec 04, 2025 2025 Annual meeting of the French Dendritic Cell Society (CFCD)
Helena Paidassi will be at the Curie Institute on December 4 and 5 to present her research findings (...)
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Aug 31, 2024 2024 CNRS conferences on a boat
Embark with a scientist for a surprise and confidential mini-conference, in the form of a boat trip (...)
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Feb 04, 2024 "Têtes chercheuses": research in cancerology, presented by the fondation ARC
The ARC Foundation brings together 5 leading cancer researchers for a 45-minute program. It will (...)
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Dec 11, 2025 Sylvère Bastien defense thesis, team StaPath (2025.12.11)
Bacterial infections and microbial interactions: omics studies of Staphylococcus aureus and (...)