250 experts of the Muscle and its disorders within the Institute of Myology are 8 experts clusters, a transversal teaching activity and a coordination team who work together to advance Muscle knowledge and fight back disease.
- The Myology Research Centre directed by Prof. Bertrand Fontaine
- NMR Laboratory – Spectroscopy Laboratory directed by Harmen Reyngoudt, PhD and Benjamin Marty, PhD
- Morphological Unit directed by Dr Teresinha Evangelista
- Neuromuscular Physiology and Evaluation Laboratory directed by Jean-Yves Hogrel, PhD
- The Myobank (Tissue bank for research) directed by Prof. Bertrand Fontaine and coordinated by Stéphane Vasseur and Maud Chapart-Leclert
- I-Motion Pediatric, pediatric clinical research platform on the site of the Hôpital Trousseau directed by Dr Giorgia Querin
- I-Motion Adults, adult clinical research platform directed by Dr Giorgia Querin
- The Service of Neuro-Myology directed by Prof. Bertrand Fontaine, main point of the Reference centre for neuromuscular disorders of East of Paris
2021 key figures
- 250 experts on muscle and its pathologies
- 38 870 patients records from its inception
- 3 569 neuromuscular consultations for adults, 2 244 psychology consultations and 333 consultations for children
- 1 378 day admissions
- 519 muscular biopsies (including 210 news ones and 309 re-analyzed)
- 178 international publications
- 19 paedriatric clinical trials, 19 clinical trials in adults and 9 registers and databases
- 27 832 samples samples available for research stored in Myobank, the biological resource bank
- 39 patent families in portfolio
