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OUR RESEARCH PROJECTS
Flagship research projects
Our flagship research projects
These projects were submitted as part of a call for proposals in late December 2024 and reviewed by an international scientific committee to meet the ambitions of our future Foundation of Myology (“Fondation de Myologie”).
In September 2025, 13 outstanding projects were selected from the roughly 30 projects submitted.
Of these, 11 research projects will be supported for up to 7 years and two exploratory projects for 12 months.
These muscle research projects explore a wide range of themes aimed at better understanding how muscle works, the diseases that affect it and the associated therapeutic prospects. They draw on cutting-edge technologies and innovative methodologies that accelerate scientific discovery and help advance knowledge of muscle.
Research projects across a range of themes
Muscle and inflammation
- Yves Allenbach: When the immune system disrupts muscle
- Olivier Benveniste: A cohort and a biobank to better understand myositis
Muscle and autoimmune diseases
- Nadine Dragin: Identifying the inflammatory messengers responsible for muscle damage
- Rozen Le Panse: The role of innate immune cells in myasthenia gravis
Therapeutic innovations
- Mario Gomes-Pereira: Treating myotonic dystrophy as a whole
- Arnaud Klein: Developing new gene therapies for Steinert disease
- Piera Smeriglio: Overcoming the limits of gene therapy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Bruno Cadot: Muscle organoids: recreating muscle in the laboratory
Myology and imaging
- Bruno Cadot: Muscles and forces: the secret dialogue between movement and DNA
- Stéphane Vassilopoulos: Decoding the mechanical sensors of muscle to improve the treatment of disease
Research & technology
Two exploratory projects
- Sestina Falcone: Exploring the role of the embryonic CaVβ1 protein in nerve-muscle reconnection after nerve injury
- Frédérique Rau and Pierre Klein: An as yet unexplored pathway in Steinert disease