Institute events

Team 5 from the Institute of Myology Centre of Research, “RNA-repair based therapeutic strategies and skeletal muscle pathophysiology” directed by France Piétri-Rouxel, demonstrated that a minimum level of 40% of dystrophin is necessary both to recover strength and to improve muscle general condition. How did you obtain these results? Our team has a long-standing interest … [Read more]

” Welcome to the 56th edition of our newsletter. This issue features an interview with Fabien Le Grand, a researcher at the Myology Centre for Research who has recently published an article about the role of the Wnt/b-catenin signalling pathway in muscle stem cells and its impact on their regenerative potential. The findings of this … [Read more]

Human Artificial Chromosomes and iPS cells: « reprogramming » experimental therapies for muscular dystrophy Monday 13 june 2016 – 12:00-13:00 


Franceso Saverio Tedesco (Principal Research Associate and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biosciences, University College London, UK) Institute of Myology auditorium Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière Building Babinski Entrance … [Read more]

Barth Syndrome: cardiolipin alterations linked to tafazzin mutations lead to apoptosis and mitophagy alterations Monday 6 june 2016  – 12:00-13:00


 Dr Patrice Petit (Directeur de Recherche « Toxicologie, Pharmacologie et signalisation cellulaire », UMR 1124, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes, France) Institute of Myology auditorium Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière Building Babinski Entrance 82 bd Vincent Auriol metro Chevaleret

Since March 2015, Fabien Le Grand has led the group “Regeneration, physiology and therapies” in Vincent Mouly’s team at the Myology Centre for Research. He and his team have published an article* in Cell Reports concerning Wnt/b-catenin activation in adult muscle progenitor cells.   What was the objective of this study? It is well established … [Read more]

Actinopathies: From Genetics to Treatment Monday 23 May 2016 – 12:00-13:00

 Julien Ochala, PhD FHEA (Lecturer in Human Physiology, Centre of Human and Aerospace Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London, UK) Host : Gillian Butler-Browne Institute of Myology auditorium Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière Building Babinski Entrance 82 bd Vincent Auriol … [Read more]

The LINC complex: a nuclear-cytoskeletal connector and contributor to inherited muscular dystrophies Monday 9 May 2016 – 12:00-13:00 
Sue Shakelton (Leicester, UK) Host : Anne Bertrand Institute of Myology auditorium Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière Building Babinski Entrance 82 bd Vincent Auriol metro Chevaleret

Trinucleotide repeat expansions from yeast to human cells: molecular mechanisms and new approaches for gene therapy Monday 2 May 2016 – 12:00-13:00
 Guy-Franck Richard (Institut Pasteur, France) Host : Denis Furling Institute of Myology auditorium Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière Building Babinski Entrance 82 bd Vincent Auriol metro Chevaleret

The 55th newsletter from the Institute of Myology has just been released! > Access 55th newsletter

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]