Lucie Guéneau, PhD student in Gisèle Bonne's lab, U582, won in Myology 2008, the "best clinical research poster" prize presenting her work concerning "new genes involved in Eymery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy (EDMD)". She worked on more than 2200 patient files to select patients presenting an EDMD phenotype (656 patients). The aim was to show that among those 656 patients, 65% were not carrying mutations in the 2 known genes (EMD coding for Emerine and LMNA coding for lamins A/C)indicating that other genes are implied. Identification of those new genes is ongoing in the lab.

This year, Doctors from the consultation and from the clinical trials team will be on the Institute stand, as well as researchers, post-doc and PhD students. They all will be there to meet patients and their families. Visitors will be invited to discover various aspects of muscle along a specific tour, with members of different laboratories (muscular physiology and evaluation, NMR imaging, collection and analysis of muscle tissue samples, basic research questions)