Institute events

Antisense approaches for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and recent advances to address DMD brain comorbidities Monday 19 May 2025 – 12h00-13h00 Aurélie Goyenvalle, PhD (Laboratory Biotherapies for neuromuscular diseases at the University of Versailles, France) More information on the presentation and the speaker On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: … [Read more]

FSHD webinar series – Episode 3: “Pediatric FSHD” Thursday 22 May 2025 – 16:00 – 17:00 Paris time Prof. Tracey Willis (Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust, UK) > + infos   Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND.  

To mark the 3rd edition of the Muscle Week, the Institute is holding an Open Day on Saturday 7th of June, from 10am to 5pm. Visitors will be able to meet our scientific experts, doctors and researchers to discover muscle in all its states, understand how it works and the interactions it weaves throughout our bodies. … [Read more]

PhD opportunity at the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at Institute of Myology. Development of real-time quantitative MRI for muscles involved in respiration, swallowing and eye movements Keywords: Muscle MRI, real-time MRI, undersampled reconstruction, non-Cartesian MRI acquisition ➣ Context Quantitative MRI (qMRI) is a well-established tool for the in vivo characterization and longitudinal monitoring of skeletal … [Read more]

PhD opportunity at the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at Institute of Myology. Low Field MR-Fingerprinting for respiratory assessment Keywords: Low-field MRI, sequence development, undersampled reconstruction and optimization, AI-based denoising, respiratory function. ➣ Context Pulmonary and muscle tissues involved in the respiratory function can be affected in various diseases (COPD, neuromuscular diseases, CoViD…). Quantitative MRI has … [Read more]

Metabolic regulations of adult muscle stem cell fate Monday 12 May 2025 – 12h00-13h00 Remi Mounier (NeuroMyoGène, Lyon, France) More information on the presentation and the speaker On prior registration for people outside the Institute of Myology: medecine-umrs974-myologie@sorbonne-universite.fr   M&M’s seminar organised by the Center of Research in Myology, at the Institute of Myology.

FSHD webinar series – Episode 2: “International Clinical Care Guidelines” Thursday 15 May 2025 – 16:00 – 17:00 Paris time Dr. Teresinha Evangelista (Institute of Myology & Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital – AP-HP, Paris, France) > + infos   Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND.

FSHD webinar series – Episode 1: “Genetic Diagnosis” Thursday 8 May 2025 – 16:00 – 17:00 Paris time Prof. Emiliano Giardina (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) > + infos   Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND.  

On Wednesday 23 April 2025, the Institute of Myology was pleased to welcome the Chairman and Chief Executive of CARAC and around ten members of their Board of Directors and management. CARAC, a mutual savings, pension and provident institution, has signed a letter of commitment with AFM-Téléthon and the Institut de Myologie Association to support … [Read more]

Myobank-AFM, the Institute of Myology’s biological resource centre, is offering patients a new donation card. This service, set up in 1996 to help researchers and advance knowledge of neuromuscular diseases, is increasingly in demand from those involved in both basic and clinical research.  Myobank-AFM‘s mission is to collect, prepare, store and provide fluid and tissue … [Read more]