What Institut Pasteur de la Guyane does

Institut Pasteur de la Guyane is a non-profit research institution headquartered in Cayenne, French Guiana, established in 1940 and operating with 39 employees (per firmographic data). The organization bears the Institut Pasteur name and is positioned as a biomedical research facility within French Guiana, an overseas French territory in the Amazon basin. Its functional scope, inferred from the Pasteur Institute's standard network mandate and the territorial location, centers on tropical and infectious disease research, surveillance, and public health laboratory services for the region, though the input data does not enumerate specific research programs, product lines, or service offerings.

The source data provides no information on the institute's revenue model, pricing structure, customer segments, distribution channels, technology stack, management team, partnerships, awards, patents, or regulatory footprint. The website (pasteur-cayenne.fr) was not retrievable in this data collection. Accordingly, the company's revenue mechanics cannot be characterized beyond the general non-profit public-health research institute model: typically a mix of French state/ARS grants, hospital and regional health-agency contracts, research collaboration funding from the broader Institut Pasteur network, and competitive national/EU research grants. No go-to-motion, sales channels, or productized offerings are documented in the supplied evidence, so any description of commercial mechanics would be unsupported.

Given the thin evidence base, characterization of geographic footprint, competitive positioning, or forward-looking strategy is necessarily limited. The institute's defensible, source-supported profile is that of a small, long-established non-profit biomedical research entity operating in a single French overseas territory with concentrated specialist headcount; all other dimensions (products, customers, technology, partnerships, financials) carry a data gap that should be treated as such in any downstream investment analysis.

Name

Institut Pasteur de la Guyane

Website

https://pasteur-cayenne.fr

Company type

Private

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Institut Pasteur de la Guyane is a non-profit biomedical research institute founded in 1940 in Cayenne, French Guiana, operating with 39 employees to deliver tropical and public health research and laboratory services for the French overseas Amazonian territory.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Biomedical Research

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology) (541714), Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories (6215)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro primary industry

Global Health Research, Clinical Trials & Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) (HLAJAOAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Clinical CROs (Phase I–IV) (HLAGAAAA)

Keywords

• Biomedical research
• Tropical disease research
• Public health services
• Clinical diagnostics
• Infectious disease epidemiology

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Core offering

The Institut Pasteur de la Guyane is a non-profit research institute founded in 1940 in Cayenne, French Guiana, operating as part of the Institut Pasteur network. It conducts scientific research on tropical and infectious diseases, delivers public health surveillance, and provides clinical diagnostics services relevant to the Amazonian and equatorial context of French Guiana. With 39 employees, it serves as a regional reference laboratory for pathogen identification, epidemiological monitoring, and applied research on endemic and emerging tropical diseases.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tropical and Infectious Disease Research

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Broad incumbents

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): The U.S. national public-health agency operating infectious-disease surveillance, reference diagnostics, and outbreak response globally. Comparable in the surveillance/reference-laboratory function, though at vastly greater scale and with a global rather than regional remit.
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: A globally leading tropical-medicine and public-health research and teaching institution. Comparable in research mandate on tropical infectious disease and global health, though much larger and primarily academic rather than reference-laboratory based.
• Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz): Brazil's leading public health and biomedical research institution, operating across tropical infectious disease, vaccine manufacturing, and public-health surveillance in the Amazon region. Comparable as a state-affiliated tropical-disease research platform operating in the same biome.
• Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD): French public research institute working on tropical and developing-country health, ecosystems, and societies. Operates joint research units in French Guiana, making it a co-located peer with overlapping tropical-disease and biodiversity research.
• Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine: Germany's national reference center for tropical medicine and a WHO collaborating center. Comparable as a national-affiliated research and reference-diagnostics institute focused on tropical pathogens, though based in Hamburg rather than an endemic region.
• Institut Pasteur (Paris headquarters): The founding and central institute of the Institut Pasteur international network. Direct parent/coordinating organization for Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, with overlapping research missions in infectious disease, immunology, and public health, and the largest scale within the network.

Direct peers

• Institut Pasteur de Dakar: A Pasteur-network institute in Senegal with a prominent vaccine-manufacturing arm (PIADC). Comparable as a French-affiliated tropical-disease research and public-health institute in West Africa, though larger and more industrially focused.
• Institut Pasteur de Madagascar: A sister Institut Pasteur institute performing biomedical research, surveillance, and reference diagnostics for tropical endemic diseases (plague, malaria, schistosomiasis) in Madagascar. Most directly comparable in mandate, structure, and network affiliation.
• Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe: A sister Institut Pasteur institute in the French Caribbean focused on arboviruses (dengue, Zika, chikungunya), leptospirosis, and HIV surveillance. Shares the same Caribbean/neighboring-region tropical-medicine focus and Pasteur-network operating model.

Others

• Pasteur Network – Other Overseas Institutes: The Institut Pasteur international network (excluding the four institutes listed above) as a collective peer set — comparable in operating model, governance under Institut Pasteur Paris, and tropical-medicine/surveillance mandate across Africa and Asia.

Market position

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Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pasteurguyane

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