News
Invited by the AFM, nearly 900 researchers have been gathered in Marseille since yesterday to share their experience and knowledge of the muscle. “Thanks to your involvement, 21 years after the first Téléthon the genetic time-scale has been shortened and therapeutic advances obtained which have added years to patients’ lives,” declared Laurence Tiennot-Herment, president of the AFM, during her opening address.
Highlights from Tuesday 27 May
Highlights from Wednesday 28 May
Highlights from Thursday 29 May
Highlights from Friday 30 May
Throughout the week you can pick up interviews (in French or English) with researchers present at Myology 2008 who have talked to us about their backgrounds and their current research projects.
The gala dinner video film !
Welcome address
Myology 2008 : treatments – the turning point
For the last twenty years the AFM has been making steady progress towards its ultimate objective – curing neuromuscular diseases. And we’ve never been so close to this objective. Today, therapeutic pathways are opening up, some of which are being tried out on humans. Only twenty years – a time to develop new therapies for incurable diseases, a time to bring to birth a true scientific and medical revolution. On the timescale of research, that’s a lot of ground covered.
And yet … For those families who daily confront the urgency of neuromuscular disease, twenty years is far too long. The turning point – the treatments so long awaited – is well and truly under way. And it must succeed. Our role is to help researchers and clinicians to innovate, to progress faster in the development of therapies and the setting up of trials on humans for rare diseases. Our role is crucial, but we can do nothing without the scientific and medical community. We know it, and it’s thanks to your tenacity, your motivation and your commitment that we’ll win the battle.
Message from the President of Myology 2008
A warm welcome goes to all myologists, doctors, clinical scientists, researchers, industrial partners, patients and patient organisations to Marseille. On the shores of the Mediterranean Myology 2008 will provide an exceptional forum for meeting your friends and fellows, exchanging the latest news and shaping new avenues of collaboration!