Institut de Myologie Autour des malades : pôles de recherche, d'enseignement et d'expertise sur le muscle Access to extranet

Myobank - AFM tissue bank for research

Director: Thomas Voit
 
Out team:
 
  • Maud Chapart-Leclert: management of Myobank and technical center 
  • Stéphane Vasseur: management Myobank and network coordination
 
Created by the AFM in 1996, the AFM tissue bank for research Myobank is a not-for-profit professional service for scientific teams. It proposes to obtain the tissue samples necessary for their work in the best conditions and offer them a secure storage site to accommodate their collections of biological samples. It engages the help necessary for the collection of samples, it prepares the tissues, stores them or transports them according to the wishes of the scientists.
 
Samples come from patients affected with neuromuscular or rare diseases, but also from healthy subjects.

 
Update: March 2010