Institute events

AFM-Telethon has decided to take up a new challenge: to produce gene-medicines from innovative biotherapies developed in the laboratories part of its Biotherapies Institute for Rare Diseases at an industrial scale, and to give patients suffering from rare genetic diseases access to them at a fair and contained price. With this in view, the association … [Read more]

Launch of a call for proposals for strategic translational projects in myotonic dystrophies The AFM-Telethon is launching a call for proposals for strategic translational projects dedicated to the development of new therapies for myotonic dystrophy. The call for proposals will be launched on October 15, 2015. The deadline for submitting applications is December 18, 2015. … [Read more]

Dr Edoardo Malfatti, Neurologist at the Morphological Unit of the Institute, has been awarded with the President’s Prize for the “Young Myologist of the Year” at the World Muscle Society International Congress held in Brighton, UK, from the 30th to the 4th of October 2015. This prestigious award has been attributed to Dr Malfatti thank … [Read more]

The most recent congress of ISMRM (International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine) was held in Toronto (Canada) from May 30th to June 5th. The team of Dr Pierre Carlier (NMR Laboratory – Spectroscopy Laboratory) presented several abstracts wherein four won awards. Moreover, among five oral communications, the third place was bestowed in “Musculo-Skeletal” category … [Read more]

Four families, all affected by rare diseases, will be the ambassadors of thousands, all gathered around the message: “The Fight of Parents, The Life of Children.” On December 4th and 5th, together with Marc Lavoine, the official ambassador of Telethon 2015, four families will represent the fight of the AFM-Telethon. Séthi, Léo, Nicolas and Marie … [Read more]

Stéphane Vassilopoulos from team 2 “Pathophysiology & therapy of the autosomal dominant centronuclear myopathy”  directed by Dr Marc Bitoun (Myology Research Centre) offers a two-year post-doctoral fellowship to begin between 10/01/2015 and 01/01/2016, “to assess the role of the endocytic machinery in mechanotransduction”. > Download the announcement > Contact : Stéphane Vassilopoulos s.vassilopoulos@institut-myologie.org

Our Summer School pf Myology will soon take place at the Institute, from June 22nd to 30th). 57 students from abroad will attend classes, comming from 26 countries all over the world. Most aspects of Myology are addressed during the course : from basic science to cutting-edge therapies, clinical and genetic approaches of muscle diseases … [Read more]

For more than 27 years, AFM has been able to initiate an innovative research policy and provide assistance to patients through donations of the Telethon. 27 years of fighting and actions for neuromuscular diseases through a strategy of general interest has resulted in significant advances for the treatment of all rare genetic diseases and even … [Read more]

A collaboration involving three laboratories supported by the AFM-Telethon, Atlantic Gene Therapies (AFM-Telethon, Inserm UMR 1089, Université de Nantes,Nantes University Hospital), Généthon (Evry) and the Institute of Myology (Paris), demonstrated the effectiveness of an innovative gene therapy treatment in the canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This work, published in the journal Molecular Therapy in … [Read more]

The AFM-Telethon, France Télévisions and Garou, sponsor of Telethon 2014 invited everyone on december 5th and 6th, on France Télévisions channels and throughout France, for a spectacular new edition! 4 families to embody “The struggle of parents, children’s lives” Delphine Olivier, Beatrice, Fabrice, Sandrine, Eric, Naziha are parents of children with a rare disease. Whether … [Read more]