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The journey of Gillian Butler-Browne and Vincent Mouly with François Gros

In this article, Gillian Butler-Browne and Vincent Mouly look back on their scientific and human “journey” with François Gros. The journey began for Gillian Butler-Browne in 1978, when she began working on muscle at the Institut Pasteur, in the laboratory of François Gros. There, she characterized the expression profile of different myosin isoforms during human … [Read more]

M&M’s – Muscle Monday Seminar – 29 January – Prof. Cristiana Perrotta (Italy)

Drug repurposing and nutraceuticals for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: the fluoxentine and plumbagin combination experience 29 January 2024 – From 12 to 1 pm Prof. Cristiana Perrotta (Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Cliniche, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy) Hosted by Sestina Falcone More information on the presentation and the speaker On prior … [Read more]

ERN EURO-NMD webinar, 25 January – Prof. Bjarne Udd (Finland)

Distal Myopathies 25 January 2024 – 4pm Paris time Prof Bjarne Udd (Director of the Tampere Neuromuscular Center, Tampere University Hospital, Finland) > + infos   Organised by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND.

The Institute is recruiting a Research Assistant

A 1-year position of research assistant (corresponding to Ingénieur d’étude) is available at the Center of Research in Myology (UMRS 974 Inserm and Sorbonne Université, Institute of Myology, Paris, France). The position is in the team ‘Muscle cell organization and therapy of dominant centronuclear myopathy’ headed by Marc Bitoun. The candidate will be involved in … [Read more]

ERN EURO-NMD webinar, 18 January : Prof. Antonio Toscano (Italy)

Rhabdomyolysis 18 January 2024 – 4pm Paris time Prof. Antonio Toscano (University of Messina, Italy) > + infos   Organised by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND.

2024, a gesture for the muscle, for everyone’s health

Dear patients and their families, Dear donors, Dear partners, All the teams and collaborators of the Institute of Myology send you their best wishes for happiness and success and wish you excellent health. May this new, exciting and Olympic year see new scientific and therapeutic advances take shape, and enable us to carry out the … [Read more]

M&M’s – Muscle Monday Seminar – 11 December – Fabio Pinna (Italy)

NAD+ metabolism in cancer- and chemotherapy-induced cachexia 11 December 2023 – from 12 to 1pm Fabio Pinna (Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Torino, Italy) > More information on the presentation and the speaker On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: medecine-umrs974-myologie@sorbonne-universite.fr   Organised by the Myology Centre for Research, at … [Read more]

ERN EURO-NMD webinar, 30th Nov. – Dr. Montserrat Olivé Plana (Spain)

Myopathology in protein aggregate myopathies and vacuolar myopathies 30th November 2023 – 4pm Paris time Dr. Montserrat Olivé Plana (Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain) Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Obzcp7k5REazzKB-56n_gQ   Organised by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND.

M&M’s – Muscle Monday Seminar – 20 November – Johan Auwerx (Switzerland)

Ceramide de novo synthesis links muscle disorders with mitochondrial and protein homeostasis 20th November 2023, from 12 to 1pm Johan Auwerx, M.D., Ph.D. (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) > More information on the presentation and the speaker On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: medecine-umrs974-myologie@sorbonne-universite.fr   Organised by the Myology Centre for … [Read more]

12th French Pompe Disease Day on November 9 at the Institute

The Institut de Myologie hosted the 12th Journée Française Maladie de Pompe on November 9. Under the aegis of the AFM, the Association Francophone des Glycogénoses (AFG) and the Association Vaincre les Maladies Lysosomales, it was organized by the Centre de référence de pathologie Neuromusculaire Nord/Est/Ile de France, the FILNEMUS and G2M rare disease networks, … [Read more]