Dr. Ramon Martí, head of the Laboratory for Mitochondrial Dirorders at Barcelona’s Vall D´Hebron Research Institute, is the coordinator of the newly-awarded European Project EUROMAC, a joint effort of 20 partners spread across 7 European Countries, Turkey and the U.S.. The project aims at bringing forward the knowledge on McArdle Disease, a rare neuromuscular disorder. This will be done by creating a registry of patients affected by McArdle Disease.

The project kicked off this Tuesday, 14 May at the Jean Monet Building (European Commission) in Luxembourg, when the partners sat together with one representative of the European Commission to plan the work to be done over the next 3 years of the project.

EUROMAC boasts itself with the unique expertise in complementary fields such as genetics and neuroscience, together with a considerable outreach potential, ensured by the active participation of the British Association for Glycogen Storage Disease, which has extensive experience in training and dissemination activities to the lay public, and most importantly, to patients affected by various forms of Glycogenoses. EUROMAC will deal in fact not only with McArdle Disease, but it will also extend the registry to other types of rare muscular glycogenoses, and it will hopefully become a reference point in the study of this type of rare disease.

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Original news: Uvigo.es