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Partnerships

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Our actions

Training

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Our missions

Forming
a community

13

Research 
units

36

Research
teams

200

Staff

2

Faculties

5

Doctoral schools

200

Students (masters and
doctoral)

Photo: Elea Ropiot, amU

Training through and for research

  • Doctoral training
  • Master’s and end-of-thesis grants
  • Summer school

Acting internationally

  • International doctoral programme
  • Working group with the European CIVIS alliance
  • Calls for incoming mobility offers (post-doctoral students and researchers) and outgoing mobility offers (missions)

Bringing disciplines closer together

  • Interdisciplinary actions combining biology, bioinformatics, physics, human and social sciences
  • Shared facilities
  • Incentive calls for projects

Strengthening partnerships

  • Marseille public university hospital system (AP-HM)
    • Rare Diseases Expert Platform (PEMR, AP-HM)
  • Centres of reference and competence for rare diseases
  • Rare diseases and health studies
  • Rare Diseases Alliance and patient associations
  • Socio-economic and cultural world

Latest news

  • Events
    Date évènement
    March 18, 2026
    International Rare Diseases Day 2026
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    International Rare Diseases Day 2026

    On the occasion of International Rare Disease Day, this year on March 18, 2026, the Marseille Maladies Rares Institute (MarMarRa), amU has once again mobilized with its partners: the AP-HM Platefor

  • Events
    Date évènement
    June 23-27, 2025
    MarMaRa 2025 Summer school
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    affiche de l'école d'été
    MarMaRa 2025 Summer school

    The Marseille institute for rare diseases (MarMaRa) is proud to organize its first international summer school CIVIS - Europe's Civic University Alliance.

The MarMaRa Institute in pictures

Credit: Elea Ropiot, amU