Activities and key figures

300 experts of the Muscle and its disorders within the Institute of Myology are 8 experts clusters, a transversal educational activity and a coordination team who work together to advance Muscle knowledge and fight back disease.

  • The Myology Centre for Research directed by Denis Furling, PhD, which brings together 10 scientific teams
  • The Neuromuscular Investigation Center directed by Prof. Fabrice Chrétien which encompasses three laboratories and a tissue bank
  • I-Motion Pediatric, the pediatric clinical research platform on the site of the Hôpital Trousseau co-directed by Dr Marina Colella, Assistant Director I-Motion Medical Staff Manager and Saadane Kirouani, Assistant Director I-Motion Non-medical Staff Manager
  • I-Motion Adults, the adult clinical research platform co-directed by Dr Marina Colella, Assistant Director I-Motion Medical Staff Manager and Saadane Kirouani, Assistant Director I-Motion Non-medical Staff Manager
  • The Registers and Databases centre directed by Prof. Karim Wahbi
  • The Service of Neuro-Myology directed by Prof. Bertrand Fontaine, main point of the Reference centre for neuromuscular disorders of East of Paris
  • The Education centre, which includes the Summer School of Myology

 

 2023 key figures

  • 300 experts on muscle and its pathologies
  • 36 060 patients records from its inception
  • 4 500 neuromuscular consultations for adults, 1 696 psychology consultations and 339 consultations for children
  • 1 400 day admissions
  • 243 muscular biopsies (including 165 news ones, 41 re-analyzed and 37 studied by electron microscopy)
  • 172 international publications
  • 20 paedriatric clinical trials, 38 clinical trials in adults and 9 registers and databases
  • 32 700 samples samples available for research stored in Myobank, the biological resource bank
  • 39 patent families in portfolio