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Targeted Therapies for Leigh Syndrome: Systematic Review and Steps Towards a “Treatabolome” Thursday February 24th, 2022 – 16:00-17:00 (Paris time) Prof Rita Horvath (University of Cambridge, Cambridge Rare Diseases Centre, UK) “Mitochondrial Disorders Thematic Month” Webinar organised by EURO-NMD. Â
A new approach to gene therapy for Steinert disease – Interview with Denis Furling
The Denis Furling* team (Paris, France), in collaboration with the Nicolas Sergeant** team (Lille, France), has developed and tested a new approach to gene therapy, a so-called “decoy” approach, for Steinert disease or myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). The strategy is based on the expression of modified proteins that will bind to the pathological expansions … [Read more]
ERN EURO-NMD webinar, Feb 17th: Pr Michelangelo Mancuso (Italy)
Primary mitochondrial myopathies Thursday February 17th, 2022 – 16:00-17:00 (Paris time) Prof Michelangelo Mancuso (University of Pisa & AOUP, Italy) “Mitochondrial Disorders Thematic Month” Webinar organised by EURO-NMD Â
Back to the 26th Journées of the Francophone Society of the Peripheral Nerve
The 26th “JournĂ©es of the Francophone Society of the Peripheral Nerve” took place on January 21 & 22, 2022 at the New Cap Event Center in Paris. They brought together 240 participants, health professionals, clinicians, researchers on cross-cutting themes from nerve to muscle. New therapeutic targets in neuromuscular diseases, and in particular in autoimmune myasthenia … [Read more]
ERN EURO-NMD webinar, Feb 3rd: Pr Cornelia Kornblum (Germany)
An introduction into mitochondrial diseases in adulthood Thursday February 3rd, 2022 – 16:00-17:00 (Paris time) Pr Cornelia Kornblum (Bonn University/Universitary Clinic of Bonn, Germany) “Mitochondrial Disorders Thematic Month” Webinar organised by EURO-NMD. Â
Charles Frison-Roche wins Oral Research Communication Prize awarded by SFM – Interview
Charles Frison-Roche has received the Oral Research Communication Prize, awarded by the French Myology Society (SFM). He is a PhD student in the REDs team headed by Denis Furling and Geneviève Gourdon, at the Myology Research Centre and the Institute of Myology. Under the supervision of FrĂ©dĂ©rique Rau, he is working on the pathophysiology of … [Read more]
The institute’s teams present at the ‘JournĂ©es de la SociĂ©tĂ© Française de Myologie’
The 18th ‘JournĂ©es de la SociĂ©tĂ© Française de Myologie’ will be held from November 24 to 26, 2021 in Saint-Etienne, France. This meeting is a privileged moment for exchanges between clinicians and fundamental researchers around the latest discoveries in the field of myology. During this edition, an important place will be given to plenary sessions … [Read more]
The Institute has acquired a state-of-the-art electron microscope
Interview with Norma B. Romero and StĂ©phane Vassilopoulos Since July 2021, researchers, doctors and engineers/ technicians from the Institute of Myology have been learning to use the different functions of the new state-of-the-art transmission electron microscope that the Institute has just acquired. While all the teams at the Myology Research Centre and the Institute’s Morphology … [Read more]
