Dr. David Sassoon’s research group in France has now gained official recognition, being linked to INSERM, the University of Paris VI and the Institute of Myology. Dr. David Sasson arrived in Paris last year from the Mount Sinai school of Medicine in New York as one of the ‘elite foreign research scientists’ selected by the French Ministry of Research to reinforce France’s potential of innovative research on an international level
He now directs the newly created INSERM unit, UMR S 787-Groupe Myologie, at the Pitié Salpêtrière Medical School which is comprised of 5 groups:
- Team 1 : David Sassoon & Giovanna Marazzi
Molecular, cellular and developmental aspects of muscle stem cells
- Team 2 : Gillian Butler-Browne & Vincent Mouly
Regeneration, pathologies and therapies of human skeletal muscle
- Team 3 : Frédéric Relaix
Molecular networks of muscle stem cells in vivo
- Team 4 : Edgar Gomes
Cytosqueleton architecture and cell polarization
- Team 5 : Luis Garcia
Physiopathology and therapeutics of neurovegetative diseases
