FRANCE:
Kourilsky Takes Helm at the Pasteur Institute
Michael Balter
PARIS--France's pre-eminent center for biomedical research, the Institute Pasteur in Paris, will start the next millennium with a new leader. Philippe Kourilsky, an internationally known immunologist at Pasteur, will replace outgoing director-general Maxime Schwartz on 1 January. The decision by the institute's 20-member executive board, which was made on 7 October, has been broadly welcomed by Pasteur scientists, who have been engaged in a long debate on the institute's future.