“My work combines my two passions: cooking and research. That is to say, I am trying to find the recipe for healthy ageing”, says Gillian Butler-Browne, Research Director of the Inserm unit 'therapy for striated muscle'. “My team studies the molecular mechanisms and cellular compartments that enable human muscles to regenerate.”

In the elderly, muscles become weaker, more susceptible to damage and they recover more slowly. This leads to a disease state known as ‘sarcopenia’. MYOAGE will address various aspects of muscle loss and weakness: 1) responsible molecular mechanisms and pathways, 2) the physiology and 3) preventive therapeutic strategies.