Institute events

Satish Babu Moparthi, a post-doctoral fellow in the ‘Muscle cell organisation and therapy of centronuclear dominant myopathy’ team at the Center of Research in Myology of the Institute of Myology, co-directed by Stéphane Vassilopoulos, has been awarded the 2025 Grandes Avancées Françaises en Biologie (GAFB) prize, along with Florian Werner, co-author of the article* published … [Read more]

On Tuesday 17 June, we laid the corner stone for our future Foundation of Myology, the first foundation worldwide dedicated to muscle research, in the presence of Jérome Coumet, Mayor of the 13th arrondissement of Paris and Chairman of SEMAPA, Lamia El Aaraje, Deputy Mayor of Paris responsible for urban planning, architecture of Greater Paris, … [Read more]

Regulation of transcriptome diversity through alternative splicing in hematological genetic disorders Monday 23 June 2025 – 12h00-13h00 Eric Allemand, PhD (Imagine Institute, Paris, France) More information on the presentation and the speaker On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: medecine-umrs974-myologie@sorbonne-universite.fr   M&M’s seminar organised by the Center of Research in Myology, at the Institute of … [Read more]

The 3ᵉ edition of Muscle Week, organised from 2 to 8 June 2025 by the Institute of Myology and AFM-Téléthon, mobilised researchers, healthcare professionals, the world of sport, businesses, local authorities and the general public around a major public health issue: muscle, the key organ in our lives and our general good health.   At … [Read more]

FSHD webinar series – Episode 4: “Clinical Trial Readiness” Wednesday 28 May 2025 – 16:00 – 17:00 Paris time Dr. Nicol Voermans & Ria de Haas, PhD (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands) > + infos   Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND.

Antisense approaches for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and recent advances to address DMD brain comorbidities Monday 19 May 2025 – 12h00-13h00 Aurélie Goyenvalle, PhD (Laboratory Biotherapies for neuromuscular diseases at the University of Versailles, France) More information on the presentation and the speaker On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: … [Read more]

FSHD webinar series – Episode 3: “Pediatric FSHD” Thursday 22 May 2025 – 16:00 – 17:00 Paris time Prof. Tracey Willis (Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust, UK) > + infos   Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND.  

To mark the 3rd edition of the Muscle Week, the Institute is holding an Open Day on Saturday 7th of June, from 10am to 5pm. Visitors will be able to meet our scientific experts, doctors and researchers to discover muscle in all its states, understand how it works and the interactions it weaves throughout our bodies. … [Read more]

PhD opportunity at the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at Institute of Myology. Development of real-time quantitative MRI for muscles involved in respiration, swallowing and eye movements Keywords: Muscle MRI, real-time MRI, undersampled reconstruction, non-Cartesian MRI acquisition ➣ Context Quantitative MRI (qMRI) is a well-established tool for the in vivo characterization and longitudinal monitoring of skeletal … [Read more]

PhD opportunity at the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at Institute of Myology. Low Field MR-Fingerprinting for respiratory assessment Keywords: Low-field MRI, sequence development, undersampled reconstruction and optimization, AI-based denoising, respiratory function. ➣ Context Pulmonary and muscle tissues involved in the respiratory function can be affected in various diseases (COPD, neuromuscular diseases, CoViD…). Quantitative MRI has … [Read more]