Institute events
RSS feedM&M’s – Muscle Monday Seminar – 14 February – Cecilia Jimenez-Mallebrera (Spain)
Multiple approaches to investigate congenital muscular dystrophies Monday February 14th, 2022 – 12:00 – 13:00 Cecilia Jimenez-Mallebrera, PhD (Research Coordinator Neuromuscular Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona, Spain, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain) On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: medecine-umrs974-myologie@sorbonne-universite.fr > More information on the presentation and the speaker M&M’s – … [Read more]
The Institute of Myology is recruiting a Data Project Manager
The Institute of Myology Located in Paris, at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, the largest public hospital in Europe, the Institute of Myology was created in 1996 by AFM-Téléthon, a patient association. The Institute’s goal: promoting the field of Myology and forming it into a medical and scientific discipline in its own right. The Institute of Myology coordinates … [Read more]
AcadeMYO 2022: July 11-13, 2022
Save the date! The next session of AcadeMYO, the institute’s myology summer school, will be held from July 11 to 13, 2022, Registrations will open in April. Since last year, the summer school has been organized entirely online and allows foreign students or students from the French overseas departments and territories to follow a condensed … [Read more]
Myobank-AFM ’s quality certification is renewed for 3 years
Myobank-AFM, the Research Tissue Bank of the Institute of Myology, is a non-profit service involved in the collection, preparation, storage and distribution of human tissue samples, primarily from people with neuromuscular or rare diseases but also healthy subjects. This center of biological resources is intended for the exclusive use of research and this, in respect … [Read more]
Crossing perspectives of I-Motion Adults clinical trial platform and its challenges
Adults I-Motion is a platform of excellence for clinical trials, serving research into treatments for neuromuscular diseases. Adults I-Motion was created in July 2019 on the model of the Paediatric I-Motion clinical trial platform at Trousseau Hospital. An integral part of the Institute of Myology, the platform works in synergy with all the services and … [Read more]
M&M’s – Muscle Monday Seminar – 24 January – Florent Ginhoux (Singapore)
Macrophage Biology: From Development to Functions Monday January 24th, 2022 – 12:00 – 13:00 Florent Ginhoux (Senior Principal Investigator, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)) 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 … [Read more]
M&M’s – Muscle Monday Seminar – 17 January – Michel Khrestchatisky (France)
Development of molecular vectors for targeted delivery of RNAi via receptor-mediated transport Monday January 17th, 2022 – 12:00-13:00 Michel Khrestchatisky (CNRS Research Director, Director of the Institute for Neurophysiopathology ; Co-Founder & Scientific Counsel of the biotechnology company Vect-Horus) On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: medecine-umrs974-myologie@sorbonne-universite.fr > More information on the … [Read more]
2022, a gesture for the muscle, a gesture for life
Dear patients and their families, Dear donors, Dear partners, We wish you a very happy New Year and, especially, very good health. We hope the New Year gives you the energy needed to help you accomplish projects that are close to your heart. We extend our warm thanks to the generous donors who supported us … [Read more]
ERN EURO-NMD webinar, December 16th : Profs Tracey Willis & Derek Willis (UK)
Palliative care in Neuromuscular Disorders Thursday December 16th, 2021 – 4pm-5pm (Paris time) Prof. Tracey Willis (Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust, Oswestry, UK; Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK) & Prof. Derek Willis (Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust · Severn hospice, Shrewsbury, UK) Inscription : https://aim.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7roScDOuTo-6yqjq2drabg Organised by … [Read more]
M&M’s – Muscle Monday Seminar – 6 December – Walter R. Frontera (Puerto Rico)
Aging muscle in humans: a translational story Monday December 6th 2021 from 12:30 to 13:30 Walter R. Frontera, MD, PhD, FRCP (Professor in the Departments of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation, and Sports Medicine (PM&R) and Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR)) On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: medecine-umrs974-myologie@sorbonne-universite.fr More … [Read more]