Institute events

The Institute of Myology and AFM-Telethon organised a press conference on 7 February to position muscle as a public health issue by announcing the project to create a Foundation of Myology and two dedicated events to raise awareness of this issue: Muscle Week and the Muscle Conferences in June 2023. Together, the Institute of Myology … [Read more]

Interview with Laurence Tiennot-Herment, President of AFM-Telethon and Institute of Myology Association.  Why is muscle a public health issue? As patients with neuromuscular diseases know all too well, muscles play a vital role in motor, respiratory and cardiac functions. But they are also affected in many other diseases such as cancer or diabetes. In other words, … [Read more]

The 25th Summer School of Myology will take place at the Institute of Myology in Paris from June 12 to 16, 2023 in two ways: face-to-face, for 40 to 50 people, and online, on the same dates, for remote participants. The full face-to-face course will include five full days of instruction combining lectures and practical … [Read more]

Cognitive impairments in neuromuscular disorders Thursday, 26 January 2023 – 3pm-4pm Stefan Winblad (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)   Amphitheatre C (Ground Floor) 91 Boulevard de l’Hôpital 75013 Paris Hosts : Nathalie Angeard (AIM) and Mario Gomes-Pereira (CRM)

Proximal Weakness 26 January 2023 – 16:00 Paris time Pr Kristl Claeys  (University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium) Inscription : https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4pKJp8MYRTGiCJKp4K4x1w   Organised by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND (rare neurological disorders) and European Academy of Neurology.

Crossed views on the evaluation and expected benefits of the use of exoskeletons in two clinical trials conducted at the Institute of Myology. In this fourth edition of “Regards croisés”, two Myology experts, Damien Bachasson, PhD, Scientific Research Project Manager and Dr Guillaume Bassez, Neurologist, present a key research project conducted at the Institute of … [Read more]

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 year, full of promise, be synonymous with progress and success and enable us to accomplish the projects we cherish. … [Read more]

Dysphagia in Neuromuscular Diseases 22 December 2022 – 16:00 Paris time Prof. Marianne de Visser (Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, NL) Inscription : https://aim.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WhWVNVhLQompDnB1QmMWrA   Organised by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND (rare neurological disorders) and European Academy of Neurology.

Young scientists working in the team “Cell and molecular orchestration in muscle regeneration, aging and in pathologies” led by Capucine Trollet and Vincent Mouly, at the Institute’s Myology Centre for Research have just been awarded by the French Myology Society (SFM). Alexis Boulinguiez, a post-doctoral student, received the “Impulse” prize, which aims to support young … [Read more]

Desmin intermediate filament loss promotes muscle wasting during aging or disease Monday November 28th, 2022 – 12:00 – 13:00 Shenhav Cohen (Russell Berrie Institute for Nanotechnology)   On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: : medecine-umrs974-myologie@sorbonne-universite.fr More information on the presentation and the speaker   Muscle Monday Seminars are organized by the … [Read more]