History

Inauguration of a second mobile laboratory provided to G5 Sahel member countries

Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Foundation at the Les Pensières Center for Global Health

Inauguration of the first Food Safety Laboratory in Vientiane

Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Phnom Penh, following renovation work and strengthening of the technical capacity of the laboratory

Inauguration of the “Maison Bénédicte”, a training and community center for young people

Launch of Humanitarian Alternatives

The Christophe Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease becomes the Center of Infectiology Lao Christophe Mérieux following official recognition by the Laos Ministry of Health

Inauguration of the Pauline-Marie Jaricot Mother and Child Medical Center in Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan

Inauguration of the Charles Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease with a Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in the Fundhacre Hospital in Rio Branco

Inauguration of a BSL-4 laboratory in Wuhan, China – the first maximum biosecurity laboratory in Asia

Inauguration of the SPHaitiLAB project to help improve the health of Haiti’s population by conducting analyses and offering strategic advice on laboratory policy

Launch of the I-Lab project in an effort to help Senegal’s National Laboratory Directorate implement an automated system for collecting epidemiological data from laboratories

Launch of the LAB-NET project in Guinea to establish a dedicated surveillance system for viral hemorrhagic fevers

Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Chittagong (Bangladesh)

Launch of Mother and Child projects in Iraqi Kurdistan

Inauguration of a mobile laboratory dedicated to the detection of the Ebola virus is set up in the Charles Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease in Bamako

Four countries join the RESAOLAB network: Benin, Guinea, Niger and Togo

Creation of the Docteur Christophe Mérieux Center in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) with “Les Enfants du Mékong”

Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Beirut

Four years after Mali, the BAMS (Bachelor in Applied Medical Sciences) training course is launched in Haiti

The first ACDx advanced diagnostics course is held at Les Pensières Center for Global Health

Inauguration of the Charles Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease and the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Antananarivo

Launch of the West African Network of Biomedical Analysis Laboratories (RESAOLAB, Réseau d’Afrique de l’Ouest des Laboratoires d’Analyses Biologiques) to strengthen the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal

Launch of the online biomedical expertise portal GLOBE (Global Link for Online Biomedical Expertise), dedicated to scientists and health professionals

Inauguration of the Christophe Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease and the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Vientiane

Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Port-au-Prince

Launch of GABRIEL, an international network of laboratories cooperating on research into infectious diseases in developing countries

Inauguration of the Christophe Mérieux Laboratory in Beijing

Inauguration of the Emerging Pathogens Laboratory in Lyon (France)

Launch of the BAMS (Bachelor in Applied Medical Sciences) training course for laboratory technicians in Mali

The first Charles Mérieux Conference, on the theme of global health

The Fondation Rodolphe Mérieux becomes the Fondation Christophe et Rodolphe Mérieux

Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in the University of Health Sciences in Phnom Penh

Inauguration of the Charles Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease and the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Bamako

Reconstruction of the Faculty of Pharmacy in Phnom Penh (Cambodia)

Alain Mérieux becomes President of the Mérieux Foundation

Creation of the Fondation Rodolphe Mérieux

Creation of ADVAC, an international advanced course in vaccinology

Creation of the Jean Mérieux-Inserm BSL-4 laboratory in Lyon (France)

Creation of the Cent Gardes Symposium dedicated to HIV at Les Pensières Center for Global Health

Creation of Bioforce development, for training human health logisticians

The Mérieux Foundation receives public utility status

One hundred million Brazilians are vaccinated against meningitis in a huge vaccination campaign

Creation of the Association for the Promotion of Preventative Medicine (known today as the Agence de Médecine Préventive, AMP)

Creation of the Mérieux Foundation by Doctor Charles Mérieux, as a tribute to his father Marcel Mérieux

Marcel Mérieux, a student of Louis Pasteur, creates the Institut Mérieux, dedicated to the development and production of human and animal vaccines