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RSS feedA 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
Back to the 26th Journées of the Francophone Society of the Peripheral Nerve
The 26th “Journées 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.
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 Frédérique Rau, he is working on the pathophysiology of … [Read more]
The institute’s teams present at the ‘Journées de la Société Française de Myologie’
The 18th ‘Journées de la Société 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 Stéphane 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]
