Institute events

Role of skeletal muscle mesenchymal progenitors in bone regeneration Monday 18th January 2021 – 12:00-13:00 Céline Colnot, PhD. (Institut Henri Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Créteil, France) Hosted by Capucine Trollet On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: medecine-umrs974-myologie@sorbonne-universite.fr   > Further details on the seminar of Céline Colnot

Dear patients and families, Dear donors, Dear partners,   We wish you a very happy New Year and excellent health. We hope this New Year brings you the energy for renewal needed to accomplish the projects close to your heart, and we hope these projects are numerous and inspiring!   We warmly thank all the … [Read more]

Located in Paris at the heart of the largest European hospital, Pitié-Salpêtrière, the Institute of Myology was created in 1996 by AFM-Telethon, a patient’s organization. Its goal: Promote Myology and have it accepted as a standalone clinical and scientific discipline. The Institute of Myology coordinates around the patient, medical care, basic research, applied research, clinical … [Read more]

Webinar organised by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND and EAN Thursday 21st January 2021 – 4:00 am (Paris time)       Sleepiness, fatigue and apathy in DM1 patients       Dr Benjamin Gallais (Researcher from Cégep de Jonquière and lecturer at the Faculty of Medecine and Health Sciences, Sherbrooke University, Quebec, Canada)   … [Read more]

The role of SMN outside the CNS: Implications for clinical care of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Monday 11th January 2021 – 1 pm-2 pm Rashmi Kothari, PhD. (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Canada) Hosted by Maria-Grazia Biferi On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: medecine-umrs974-myologie@sorbonne-universite.fr   > Further details on the … [Read more]

At the end of the television broadcast, the counter of the 2020 Telethon shows 58 290 120 euros. Despite the health crisis, which led to the cancellation of a very large number of events in towns and villages, the French people responded positively to this extraordinary Telethon: the one presenting the greatest victories of its … [Read more]

Webinar organised by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND and EAN Thursday 10th December 2020 – 4:00 am (Paris time)   Challenges in the diagnosis and management of patients with myasthenia gravis   Isabel Leite (Senior Researcher and Honorary Clinical Neurologist from the Nuffield Dept of Clinical Neurosciences Oxford University, UK)   Inscription : https://aim.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CUlyQGJCQL6nU6nBr4ikQA

The teams of the Institute of Myology fully committed and organized despite the crisis   Regarding this second period in the health crisis we are going through and strengthened by the measures provided in the first period, our teams have been able to adapt and know how to work in an epidemic situation. Some of our … [Read more]

Mechanical Tension Drives Cell-Cell Fusion Monday 7 December 2020 – 4pm-5pm
 Pr Elizabeth Chen (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA) Hosted by Catherine Coirault et Bruno Cadot On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: medecine-umrs974-myologie@sorbonne-universite.fr > Further details on the seminar of Prof. Elizabeth Chen

The operation ‘1000 researchers in schools in France and abroad’ intended to bring together researchers and middle school students to share a moment and discover the reality of research. Many establishments signed up for an intervention. About fifty researchers from the Institute of Myology took part in this operation in 65 establishments (middle and high … [Read more]