The generous support of the French people to the Telethon provide AFM with funding for the long-standing and far-reaching project to create a research and care institute dedicated to the muscle. AP-HP gives the go-ahead for the setting up of the Institute at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital.

Meanwhile, AP-HP sets up a pluridisciplinary consultation for neuromuscular diseases at the Risler pavillion.

Signature of the AP-HP/AFM agreement protocol.
AP-HP launches the construction work.

January :Pr Fardeau gives the first lecture in myology  as an introduction to the University Diploma of Neuromuscular Pathology.
June :setting up of Inserm Unit 153.

In April, the pluridisciplinary consultation is transfered from the Risler pavillion to the new Institute building.

34 participants, 22 nationalities

First gene therapy trial in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

International Congress of Myology held in Nantes, May 9-13, 2005.