Addressing multiple pathologies: a comprehensive approach combining research and prevention
Understanding the diseases of tomorrow to better prevent them today
Living longer is a great victory for scientific progress. But this victory is only truly a victory if it is accompanied by a goal shared by all: healthy longevity.
Faced with this aging population, chronic diseases are becoming a global public health issue. Diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer… These conditions no longer occur in isolation, but often accumulate in the same individual: this is what we call chronic aging. polypathologyThat is our challenge.
At the Pasteur Institute of Lille, we have chosen a comprehensive approach: understanding the interactions between organs, diseases and the environment. to act on several fronts at once : research, prevention and innovation.
One of our goals is to organize preventive medicine in order to increase the number of healthy people.
Aging, multiple pathologies and infections: related challenges
Aging makes the body more vulnerable. Chronic diseases promote infections, and conversely, infections worsen existing diseases.
This double vulnerability, immune and physiological, accentuates the complexity of care.
That is why the Pasteur Institute of Lille brings together on the same campus Infectious disease researchers and chronic disease specialists, in order to better understand the links between Aging, immunity, and diseases.
Prevention: an action at the heart of the strategic project
Prevention is an integral part of the strategy of the Pasteur Institute of Lille.
Our Prevention Center, present in Lille, Tourcoing, Arras and Béthune, acts for anticipate the disease well before its onset.
Our priorities:
- Promote a healthy lifestyle : nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress for physical and mental well-being
- Supporting the most vulnerable people : economic insecurity, social isolation, family caregivers
- Identifying invisible vulnerabilities, thanks to new biomarkers such as the epigenetic clock
- Being present on the ground, with health check-ups, educational activities and interventions throughout the Hauts-de-France region
One vision: to live better, longer
The aging population is not inevitable; on the contrary, it is a collective challenge.
By combining fondamental research, technological innovation and preventive medicineThe Pasteur Institute of Lille is working to ensure that everyone can live longer, healthier.
Thanks to the synergy of its teams and the support of its public and private partners, the Institute contributes every day to transforming scientific knowledge into concrete solutions for the health of tomorrow.
