Institute events

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]

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]