Institut Cochin was created in 2002. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Institute is organizing an international and open scientific symposium. The general objective of this symposium is to exchange and discuss new concepts and the most recent discoveries in the research fields developed at the Institute according to 5 scientific axes: Microbiology, Immunology, Cancer, Metabolism/Endocrinology, and Plasticity. /Reproduction.

The scientific program will include "keynote" presentations by world-renowned experts:

Yasmine Belkaid (NIH, NIAID, Bethesda, US)
Michel Bouvier (IRIC, Univ. Montreal, CA)
Isabelle Cremer (Cordeliers Research Center, Paris, FR)
Claudia MitchellAstellas
Philippe Sansonetti (Institut Pasteur, Paris and Shanghai).