The Institut Pasteur was created, thanks to worldwide generosity with the aim to welcome and treat rabies patients, to provide a place for scientific research and to offer new teaching programs in microbiology. Louis Pasteur invited his main collaborators, who had accompanied him during his previous investigations at École Normale Supérieure, to join him in his new institute. They contributed to the principle discoveries of Pasteur, such as the fight against spontaneous generation, the identification of the ferments of putrefaction, the fight against the silk worm disease, the research on wine and beer, and the set-up of the first vaccines against avian cholera, anthrax, swine erysipelas, and rabies. There were two scientists, Émile Duclaux and Charles Chamberland, and two medical doctors, Émile Roux, and Joseph Grancher. In addition, two Russian scientists were invited to join the Institute and to head a research laboratory, Élie Metchnikoff and Nikolaï Gamaleïa; the later will finally never join the institute.

巴斯德研究所的建立是由于全世界的慷慨捐助，其目的是欢迎和治疗狂犬病患者，为科学研究提供场所并提供新的微生物学教学计划。路易斯·巴斯德（Louis Pasteur）邀请他的主要合作者加入他的新研究所，他的主要合作者在他之前在巴黎高等师范学院进行调查期间一直陪伴他。他们为巴斯德的原理发现做出了贡献，例如与自发产生的斗争，对腐烂发酵的鉴定，与蚕病的斗争，对葡萄酒和啤酒的研究以及针对第一种疫苗的建立。禽霍乱，炭疽，猪丹毒和狂犬病。有两位科学家ÉmileDuclaux和Charles Chamberland，还有两位医生ÉmileRoux和Joseph Grancher。此外，应邀邀请了两名俄罗斯科学家加入该研究所并领导研究实验室ÉlieMetchnikoff和NikolaïGamaleïa。后者最终将永远不会加入该研究所。