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I was so delighted to present my work at the LAMA2 Istanbul 2026 Conference and to share it with the LAMA2 community. Thank you to the organisers: VOOR SARA LAMA2- Europe İstanbul Nişantaşı Üniversitesi​​​​​​

for winning the Best Oral Presentation award at the MarMaRa Annual Scientific Symposium that took place in Luminy ! Imane presented her PhD work on modeling muscular dystrophy caused by a new PLEC1 mutation using patient’s hiPSC, and made me a proud and very happy PhD supervisor! A big thank you to Institut Marseille Maladies Rares (MarMaRa) and team for organising a great event, and congratulations to the winners of the Best Poster Presentation awards!

I am delighted to share that our group at Marseille Medical Genetics (Inserm / Aix-Marseille University) has received funding from the French Foundation for Rare Diseases as part of its 2025 specific call for projects. This funding will support an innovative multi-omic study aimed at improving the diagnosis of patients affected by muscular dystrophies but who remain without a definitive genetic diagnosis. Despite advances in sequencing technologies, many patients still lack a