Pasteur Institute of India

The death of a young English lady Lily Pakenham Walsh, due to hydrophobia in the year 1902, who could not get anti-rabies treatment in time, led to the establishment of Pasteur Institute of Southern India.

Spread over an area of 16 acres of land the institute is situated on a grassy knoll on the upper reaches of Coonoor town amidst beautiful surroundings with lush greenery, manicured lawns and flower gardens.

Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor is producing Vero Cell Derived Rabies Vaccine for Human use and DPT group vaccines consisting Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor is running Anti Rabies treatment centre 24x7 basis since its inception and it is well known for their academic activities like one week, one month for life science students and three months dissertation programmes to Post Graduate students.

Later during 2010, the suspension was revoked and Union Government of India allocated about Rs.137 crores to establish a new GMP facility for the production of DPT group of vaccines.

Within a short span of seven years, this unit blossomed into a "Deficiency Disease Enquiry" and later in 1928, emerged as full-fledged "Nutrition Research Laboratories" (NRL) with Dr. McCarrison as its first director.

[4] During the recent outbreak of COVID-19, Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor has carry out COVID - 19 testing with the approval of Indian Council of Medical Research[5] and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.