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, she also rendered a heartfelt tribute to Ketty Schwartz, president of the Scientific Council of the AFM since 1998, who passed away last December. “Neuromuscular diseases represent a laboratory of innovation in biomedical research,” she emphasised.
Thomas Voit, president of the Congress and Medical and Scientific Director of the Institute of Myology in Paris, added “this is a motor of innovation for all medicine – cell, gene and pharmaco-genetic therapies will be the therapies of tomorrow.”
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 and also the highlights of the congress on the website :
http://www.myology2008.org/en/.
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