Funding from AFM and MDUK

We are very happy to share our recent success with our proposals submitted to the recent calls of MDUK and AFM.

Giorgio Tasca has received funding from MDUK to perform a study using Spatial Transcriptomics in muscle samples of patients with FSHD and controls. This study will help to unravel the molecular mechanisms leading to the process of muscle degeneration in this disease. 

Elisa Villalobos Villegas has been awarded with a Trampoline Grant by the AFM to study the effect of stiffness in the process of differentiation of FAPs from controls and DMD. This grant will allow her to start building her portfolio of funded project and will provide funding to perform a secondment in a laboratory in France to learn how to apply Atomic Force Microscopy to the analysis of cell and muscle samples. 

The MyoGuide team has received funding from MDUK to extend their project (Myo-Guide+) and apply intelligence artificial tools to the analysis of muscle MRIs in orders to expedite the diagnosis of neuromuscular disease and facilitate the segmentation and analysis of individual muscles. 

Finally, Jordi Diaz Manera has received funding from AFM to study the changes in the composition of the extracellular matrix in muscle biopsies of patients and pigs with DMD. This project will be developed by James Clark and will help us to understand the role of the matrix in the process of muscle degeneration. This is an international collaborative project including a laboratory in Barcelona and another one in Lyon.