Institute events

The final amount of money collected during Telethon 2015 has just come up: 93,850,778€ were collected thanks to the national rallying from all participants. Thanks to this amount, researchers and families of patients will be able to carry on with their fight against rare diseases. This result is even more outstanding that this 29th edition … [Read more]

Myology 2016 : the beginning of the therapeutic era for neuromuscular diseases Myology 2016, the international congress of myology organized by AFM-Téléthon has ended last week. It gathered 982 international experts in the field (researchers, clinicians, doctors…) have compared their latest work for 5 days. This edition was undoubtedly marked by the beginning of the therapeutic … [Read more]

The congress Myology 2016, organised by AFM-Téléthon, is now coming to an end with a focus on the heart and advanced therapies. Plenary session « Heart » Now again, we’ve witnessed presentations on the advances and the projects of gene and cell therapies for the heart, whether for cardiomyopathies or post-infarction heart failure. Therefore, Philippe Menasché (HEGP, … [Read more]

Plenary session « Advances in Myology » The fourth day of Myology 2016 opened on a plenary session dedicated to the different myology-related advances. H. Lee Sweeney from the University of Florida (USA), co-chairman of the congress, overviewed the trials using oligonucleotides in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. He underlined the need, for demonstrating the efficiency of products currently … [Read more]

Wednesday opened on a symposium based on the development of innovative therapies, which make a new, booming type of medicine. Because the first drug candidates developed so far are only “prototypes”, researchers and doctors are building a strategy to tackle the disease on all fronts. Plenary session « Gene-Based Therapy and Muscular Dystrophies » Matthew … [Read more]

Throughout this second day, Myology 2016 was the stage of plenary sessions focused on “Fundamental muscle biology and neuromuscular junction.” Plenary session This second day started with a lecture by Christophe Marcelle, initially in charge of the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at the University Monash in Melbourne, which has carried out the project Muscle formation, … [Read more]

The 5th international congress of myology, Myology 2016, organised by AFM-Téléthon, has started yesterday. Throughout this week, over 800 international experts on muscle and its diseases will gather at the Palais des Congrès in Lyon. This event will be the highlight of international myology in 2016, 30 years after the discovery of the gene involved … [Read more]

Stéphane Vasseur and Maud Chapart-Leclert, from Myobank, the research tissue bank of the Institute of Myology, will hold a booth at the international congress of Myology, in Lyon, Myology 2016, from 14 to 18 March 2016, with Anne Bigot (from the platform for the immortalisation of human cells of the Myology Centre for Research). Researchers … [Read more]

Transplantation de cellules myogéniques dans les muscles squelettiques: leçons à tirer de nos études chez l’Homme et le Primate non humain Monday 21 March Mars2016 – 12:00-13:00 Daniel Skuk, MD (Neurosciences Area Associate Researcher, Québec CHU Centre of Research) Host : Jean-Thomas Vilquin Institute of Myology auditorium Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière Building Babinski Entrance 82 … [Read more]

Cell therapy for muscular dystrophy: lessons learned and the road to efficacy Wednesday 24 February 2016 – 12:00-13:00 Giulio Cossu, MD, FMedSci (Constance Thornley Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, UK – Honorary Professor of Human Stem Cell Biology, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK) … [Read more]