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The Myology Institute association has adopted a new logo displaying the colours and dynamism of its founder members: the AFM and Généthon.

Institute events

22/08/2008 - Registration opens for the university degree-qualifying courses given by the Institute: IUD of Myology, the UD "Support for Individuals affected by a Genetic Disease and their Family" and the IUD of Psychopathology and Neurological Diseases. > More

Myology research highlights

• 24/08/2008 - Antibodies to acetylcholine receptors in seronegative myasthenia - Read more

• 24/08/2008 - Face to Face with Duchenne - Read more

• 19/08/2008 - Disease-specific stem cell lines developed - Read more

Myology 2008 online report

The 3rd international Myology congress took place in Marseille May 26-30, 2008. Find highlights of the congress, day by day > Read

Listen to interviews (in French or English) with researchers present at Myology 2008 who talked to us about their backgrounds and current research projects.

Press release

04/07/2008 - A new president at the head of the Genethon laboratory - Yves Champey takes over from Bernard Barataud Yesterday the board of directors at Genethon nominated a new president to head the laboratory created in 1990 by the AFM (French Muscular Dystrophy Association). Thus Yves Champey succeeds Bernard Barataud, who has decided to hand over the reins after heading the laboratory between 1990 and 1995 and then between 1999 and 2008. Read more

Online interview

Marie-Agnès Medjès Currently working at the Institute of Myology in Yves Fromes group in the laboratory of experimental physiology, she is seeking to understand the mechanisms of the nervous system adaptation to the progressive muscular weakness and impairment: what is the new equilibrium between the muscle and its nervous control? - Read more

Conferences & Meetings

> 12/09/2008 - EAMDA/TREAT-NMD conference

> 29/09/2008 - 13th World Muscle Society Congress

> 04/10/2008 - European Respiratory Society 2008 Annual Congress : ERS 2008

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Our websites

AFM French Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Généthon Gene therapies research and applications center.

Myology 2008 - 3rd scientific congress on myology : Marseille - 26 to 30 may 2008.

MFM Quantitative scale measuring the functional motor abilities of a person affected by a neuromuscular disease

Istem Institute for cell therapy and exploration of monogenic diseases

ENMC An international research support organization for neuromuscular disorders.

MYORES European Network of Excellence dedicated to muscle studies.

ISTEM Institute for cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic diseases

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