Pasteur Institute of India

About Us

Key Objectives

Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor is a pioneer Institute involved in the production of Antirabies Vaccine and DPT group of Vaccines. It is functioning as an autonomous body under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India.

DPT group of vaccines viz., Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus (DPT) Vaccine, Diphtheria-Tetanus (DT) Vaccine and Tetanus Toxoid (TT) Vaccine
Tissue Culture Antirabies Vaccine (Vero Cell Purified)

Our Vision

To produce safe, potent and cost effective vaccines with continuing improvement in our Quality systems.

Our Mission

To produce and supply of DPT group of vaccines to UIP by 2021. Establishment of new facility for viral vaccine and Anti Sera. Expansion activities like production of vaccines for emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases which are not covered under UIP and not manufactured by any other private organization.

Quality Objective

We are committed to produce safe, potent and cost effective vaccines with continuing improvement in our Quality systems. The employees of PIIC discharge their duties professionally while ensuring safety, efficacy and quality of the vaccines manufactured.

PIIC as a team, dedicates itself to achieve the Quality by following the Quality Objectives

To adhere to cycle time for production, testing and dispatch.
Improve the yield of production components.
Reduce in-process rejections.
Enhance customer satisfaction.
Maintain nil customer complaints.
Impart regular in-house training for employees.
Recognize each employee’s responsibility for Quality.
Encourage team approach.
Continually improve through Quality Management System.

Production

DTP group vaccines.

Vero Cell Derived Rabies Vaccine for Human use.

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R & D

Cost effective Tissue Culture Rabies Vaccine.

Training Programmes to Post Graduate students.

Present Activities

Qualification, validation of facility and trial batch production of DPT group of vaccines in the new GMP facility.

Other Activities

Rabies Diagnostic Laboratory.

Dog/Animal bite Treatment Centre.

Preamble

The Institute started functioning as Pasteur Institute of Southern India, on 6th April 1907 and the Institute took a new birth as the Pasteur Institute of India (registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act 1860) and started functioning as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi from the 10th of February, 1977. The affairs of the Institute are managed by a Governing Body. The Institute is functioning on no profit no loss basis.

Genesis

The death of a young English lady Lily Pakenham Walsh, due to hydrophobia in the year 1902, who could not get antirabies treatment in time, led to the establishment of Pasteur Institute of Southern India. Mr. Henry Phipps, American Philanthropist donated to Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India a sum of Rs.50.00 lakhs for the development of Medical Institutions, out of which, a sum of Rupees one lakh was allocated to start the Pasteur Institute of Southern India at Coonoor.

The cool and equitable climate led to the choice of Coonoor as the most suitable location for the construction of the Institute. 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.It has a glorious tradition of single minded dedication to alleviate the suffering of humanity by its contribution to the research and development of vaccines in the country.

Louis Pasteur, 1822 - 1895

“...then, I implore you, take some interest in those sacred dwellings meaningly described as laboratories. Ask that they may be multiplied and completed. They are the temples of the future, of riches and of comfort. There humanity grows greater, better, stronger; there she can learn to read the works of nature, works of progress and universal harmony, while humanity’s won works of progress and universal harmony, while humanity's own works are too often those of barbarism, of fanaticism and of destruction.