Institut Imagine - Curing Genetic Diseases

With over 1,000 of the best researchers and medical doctors from 38 different countries, Institut Imagine is a world leading research, care and teaching center dedicated to the study of genetic diseases. Based in Paris, France, its mission is to accelerate research to understand and treat genetic diseases in order to change the lives of sick children and their families.

Rare genetic diseases affect more around 35 million people in Europe, 350 million in the world. Most of them are children. With over 30,000 new cases every year in France only, this is a public health issue that concerns us all. It is estimated that there are just over 8,000 genetic diseases today. Most are severe, chronic, disabling, and life-threatening from childhood onwards. They can affect several people in the same family.

Thanks to your donations, Institut Imagine will be able to accelerate research to ever better :

• provide a diagnosis, by identifying the mutated genes responsible for the disease
• understand the disease, by identifying the mechanisms to be restored and envisage avenues for a new treatment
• find the treatments of tomorrow, in order to bring a therapeutic solution to patients and improve their lives