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December 12 2017

Congratulations to Cyrielle Hou, team 10 of Fred Relaix/François-Jérôme Authier, who has just won the Master’s Award in Myology from the Société Française de Myologie / Santhera Pharmaceuticals!

The Master’s Award in Myology from the French Society of Myology / Santhera Pharmaceuticals is intended to reward a young researcher for the quality of his or her Master’s work in Biology in clinical, physiopathological or fundamental research in the field of Myology. This prize judges the presentation of the thesis and more generally the […]

December 7 2017

Congratulations to Carole Hénique of Dil Sahali’s team 21 who has just published an article in Nature Communications on November 28th, 2017!

Rapidly progressive crescent glomerulonephritis (RPGN) is the most aggressive form of acquired glomerular disease. Although most therapeutic approaches use immunosuppressive strategies, pathophysiology is still a mystery.

November 30 2017

Special Jury Prize for the Surgeons of the Future for Mickaël Miro-Padovani of Team 7

Congratulations to Mickael Miro-Padovani, Master 2 of Team 7 of A. De La Taille who has just received the jury's special prize for his work directed by Dr Mohamed Amiche

November 27 2017

Congratulations B Vingert from F Pirenne team for important paper showing that an anti-CD20 antibody prevents Red Blood Cell alloimmunization in a mouse model!

Congratulations to Benoît Vingert and his colleagues from France Pirenne's team n°2 for his important article in J. Immunology showing that an anti-CD20 antibody prevents the alloimmunization of red blood cells in a murine model. Article included in the Journal of Immunology's editorial of December 1st, 2017!

November 20 2017

Very important publication in Fred Relaix team in Cell Reports on the development of a protocol that bypasses the impact of isolation procedures and captures cells in their natural resting state

Léo Machado, Philippos Mourikis and Frederic Relaix (IMRB-U955 team of Fred Relaix) have just published a very important article in the review Cell Reports (IF 8.282) of November 14,2017 on the development of a protocol that bypasses the impact of isolation procedures and captures cells in their natural resting state. Their study also reveals previously […]

November 9 2017

Identification of the embryonic origin of FAPs: Team 10 associated with other teams published a very interesting article in Nature Communications (IF: 12.124)

Team 10 of Frédéric Relaix and François-Jérôme Authier associated with several German and French teams, published a very interesting article in the journal Nature Communications on October 31st, 2017. A story that identifies the embryonic origin of FAPs (Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitors), the population of adult muscle mesenchymal stem cells that differentiate into adipocyte and give fibrosis in pathological expectations...

October 11 2017

Josselin Houenou and Stéphane Jamain, as well as their colleagues in team 15, have demonstrated a genetic variant associated with both early-onset bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

L’équipe 15 de Marion Leboyer et de Stéphane Jamain a mis en évidence un variant génétique associé à la fois aux troubles bipolaires à début précoce et à la schizophrénie. Les résultats sont publiés dans « The Journal of Neuroscience, 2 October 2017, 1040-17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1040-17.2017 ». SNAP25 (pour synaptosomal associated protein) est une protéine essentielle […]

September 13 2017

IMRB launches a call for Group Leader Positions

The IMRB welcomes applications from outstanding candidates interested in translational research, including basic research and pathophysiology, in preclinical animal models, clinical studies and innovative biotherapy approaches. The candidates should be dynamic and qualified investigators with strong track records, and are expected to apply for competitive funding. Applications from both Junior investigators (to establish a new […]

February 15 2016

Erectile dysfunction following treatment for prostate cancer : IMRB at the cutting edge of progress!

After receiving a transplant of stem cells in the penis, 12 patients with severe erectile dysfunction found significant improvements in the quality of sexual intercourse

February 9 2016

The launch of European Consortium EHVA (European HIV Vaccine Alliance) coordinated by Inserm and the VRI (Vaccine Research Institute).

January 26, 2016, Paris, France and Lausanne, Switzerland. The European Commission has granted over 22 million Euros to the European HIV Vaccine Alliance (EHVA) to develop

January 7 2016

December 15, 2015: Presentation of the technological facilities of the IMRB to industrials

On Tuesday, December 15, 2015, a meeting was held for the first time at IMRB to present its technological facilities to local industrials

November 12 2015

José Cohen (co-head of the team “Renal Immunopathology and Immunomodulation in Transplantation”) has been awarded the Great Price of the French Academy of Sciences and the Victor et Erminia Mescle Price of the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale

José Cohen (co-head of the team “Renal Immunopathology and Immunomodulation in Transplantation”) has been awarded the Great Price of the French Academy of Sciences “Cellular Therapy and Regenerative Medicine” in the “Clinical and translational Research” category. This international Price created in 2012 by the Fondation Générale de Santé is placed under the patronage of the Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur […]

October 16 2015

Improving the consent of Huntington’s disease patients to clinical trials

Laurent Cleret de Langavant 's studies (from the Interventional Neuropsychology team headed by A-C Bachoud-Lévi) published in PloS One have been cited in the INSERM journal Science et Santé.

August 10 2015

Team 13 (Bruno Louis and Marcel Filoche), in collaboration with the team of Prof. Jim Grotberg (University of Michigan) recently developed the first physico-mathematical model of fluid administration by tracheo-bronchial airways

We work for several years with Pr. Jim Grotberg the University of Michigan (Biomedical Engineering Department) on various aspects of transport in the lung airways. The surfactant replacement therapy is a technique that involves administering intratracheally by the surfactant that lines the deep areas of the lungs and allows it to change the volume evenly […]

July 16 2015

Total liquid ventilation : Bijan Ghaleh’s team at the forefront of this unique technique allowing to save neurons and improve recovery after cardiac failure

A recent publication from the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire at Maisons-Alfort and from the Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale (Inserm, UPEC) describes the benefits of total liquid ventilation, a unique approach allowing to save neurons and improve recovery after cardiac failure.