Institute events

Once again this year, scientific experts from the Institute of Myology, Genethon and I-Stem will travel from November 6th to December 1st in many colleges and secondary schools to help students better understand the latest scientific and medical advances and to make them discover the world of research. On the agenda, after a reminder of … [Read more]

The Myology Centre for Research of the Institute of Myology participated in the 2017 Science Festival Fair on October 14th and 15th. On the Jussieu campus, the Myology Centre for Research was present on the stand: “Muscle in all its states”: researchers were able to share their knowledge with the support of posters explaining lab … [Read more]

Karolina Aragon, a polyglot physician in her thirties, recently joined the I-Motion team. Where do you come from and when did you arrive at the I-Motion Institute? I arrived in December 2016 from Poland. At the end of my medical studies in 2010, I spent a few years in my country, then I came to … [Read more]

Regulation of nuclear mechanics in health and disease states Monday September, 18th 2017 – 12:00 – 13:00
 Prof. Yosef Gruenbaum (Department of Genetics, The Alexander Silberman institute of Life Sciences, Mathilda Marks-Kennedy Chair in Biochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Currently in Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich) Institute of Myology auditorium Hôpital de … [Read more]

Welcome to our summer issue of the Newsletter! In this edition, two interviews highlight promising results from research teams at the Institute of Myology on both basic and clinical research aspects: the mechanisms of cell migration and improved evaluation of physical activity of patients. Stéphane Vassilopoulos describes the identification of new cell structures used by … [Read more]

Clinicians and researchers at the Institute of Myology have just published an article in the journal Neurology* concerning the use of accelerometers to assess the impact of a treatment by measuring the daily physical activity of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). Jean-Yves Hogrel, Director of the Laboratory of Physiology and Neuromuscular Evaluation, discusses the … [Read more]

A Myology teaching unit, coordinated by Professor C. Chanoine, will be launched in September at the Université Paris Descartes (Paris V) in the 3rd year the Bachelor’s degree in Sciences for Health. It will bring together experts in skeletal muscle from the Institute of Myology and the Faculty of Basic and Biomedical Sciences (F. Charbonnier, … [Read more]

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Stéphane Vassilopoulos (INSERM Researcher at the Myology Research Center at the Institute of Myology) participated in the discovery of a novel mechanism of cell migration. In collaboration with researchers from the Gustave Roussy Institute and the Institut Curie, he has demonstrated a new mode of adhesion and movement of the cell in a three-dimensional collagen … [Read more]

Created 20 years ago to train physicians worldwide about the latest scientific and medical advances in neuromuscular diseases, the 20th edition of the Summer School of Myology has just terminated. In 1998, the Institute of Myology was inspired by the concept of summer schools, very popular in the Anglo-Saxon academic world, and founded the Summer … [Read more]