On October 30, 2024, the SCOR Foundation for Science held a webinar titled “Mpox (monkeypox): Current Scientific Assessment and Future Perspectives,” as part of the 2020–2024 research project “A One Health Study of Monkeypox: Human Infection, Animal Reservoir, Disease Ecology, and Diagnostic Tools.”

The webinar was delivered by three speakers: Antoine Gessain, Head of the Institut Pasteur’s Oncogenic Virus Epidemiology and Pathophysiology Unit, Manon Curaudeau, a postdoctoral fellow in the Unit, and mammalian evolution specialist Alexandre Hassanin, Lecturer at Sorbonne University and Researcher at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle.

The speakers presented the Institut Pasteur’s research on mpox in collaboration with the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN) along with the scientific advances in this field that have been made possible through the support of the SCOR Foundation.  

Biographies

Antoine Gessain heads the Institut Pasteur’s Oncogenic Virus Epidemiology and Pathophysiology Unit. He is a member of numerous scientific commissions and councils and is also actively involved in teaching virology, especially at the Institut Pasteur.  

Manon Curaudeau is a postdoctoral fellow in the Institut Pasteur’s Oncogenic Virus Epidemiology and Pathophysiology Unit.  

Alexandre Hassanin is a lecturer at Sorbonne University. He is also a researcher at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, specializing in mammalian evolution with taxonomic expertise on bats and ruminants and a particular interest in species identified as virus reservoir hosts (Ebola, MPXV, SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2). Alexandre Hassanin is in charge of supporting Manon Curaudeau in her research at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle.

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