Each year, the Marseille institute for rare diseases (MarMaRa) proposes a wide range of calls for projects and offers to support the research and training projects of up-and-coming students or PhD students, teacher-researchers, researchers, engineers and associations in the field. We usually release two calls for projects, in spring and in autumn. Since the inauguration of the Institute in January 2020, and thanks to the commitment of our members, we have been able to support a wealth of initiatives in different and complementary disciplines, including biology, physics and human and social sciences.

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The MarMaRa institute proposes the following recurrent calls for projects:

Calls for TRAINING projects/grants

 

End of thesis

To support PhD students in their research projects, the MarMaRa institute offers a thesis extension of up to 6 months. This grant is awarded to PhD students who complete their thesis in one of the Institute’s laboratories and who need additional time to complete their experimental or written work.

Master’s internship

As a research and training institute, the MarMaRa supports master’s students in their research work. In addition to offering specific training courses, the Institute publishes a call for projects dedicated to internship grants every year.

Training

This call for projects aims to promote training, fostering career development and helping members of the Institute to acquire new skills.

To view all of our actions and offers, visit our Calls for projects and offers and News pages.

PhD award

Calls for RESEARCH projects/grants

Invited researcher

This call aims to promote national, European and international collaborations, to support the hosting of a researcher in one of the Institute's teams up to 3 months

Mission

This call for projects/grants covers the two areas of “mission-dissemination” and “mission-collaboration”.

  • Dissemination: Foster mobility and international collaborations by attending scientific events.
  • Collaborations: Offer PhD students, post-doc students, engineers and junior researchers the opportunity for short-term mobility for scientific collaboration purposes. 

Incentive action

This call for projects aims to encourage new collaborative projects by supporting new innovative and excellence projects between the Institute’s laboratories (minimum of two laboratories). Priority is given to projects that make use of interdisciplinary skills. 

Academic research/NPO collaboration

This action aims to strengthen and develop collaboration between patient organizations and the Institute’s research laboratories.

Post doc

This grant strenghten the visibility and the attractiveness of the institute and allow post-doctoral fellows out their projects in one of the MarMaRa’s research laboratories.

Translational research

This call for projects aims to promote new collaborative clinically-oriented projects within the Marseille Rare Diseases community and support support new innovative and high-quality projects based on the collaboration between a research structure and a clinical or laboratory unit of the AP-HM hospitals.

Research year

This grant provide students in the medical and paramedical sciences (doctors, odontologists, pharmacists, etc) the opportunity to immerse themselves in a year of full-time research. These funding can be dedicated either to obtaining a master's degree or to cover a first year of a PhD program in one of the institute's team.

Scientific event

Calls for TRAINING projects/grants

 

End of thesis

To support PhD students in their research projects, the MarMaRa institute offers a thesis extension of up to 6 months. This grant is awarded to PhD students who complete their thesis in one of the Institute’s laboratories and who need additional time to complete their experimental or written work.

Master’s internship

As a research and training institute, the MarMaRa supports master’s students in their research work. In addition to offering specific training courses, the Institute publishes a call for projects dedicated to internship grants every year.

Training

This call for projects aims to promote training, fostering career development and helping members of the Institute to acquire new skills.

To view all of our actions and offers, visit our Calls for projects and offers and News pages.

PhD award

Testimonials

Céline Damon
President of the LAMA2-France association / Winner of the "laboratory/association collaborative project" call, 2022
The aim of our project is to develop and study new cellular models of LAMA2-RD derived from patient stem cells (hiPSC). Thanks to this funding, the team has already derived hiPSCs from four patients carrying different mutations in the LAMA2 gene, and phenotypic analyses of the differentiated muscle cells are currently underway. These will enable us to identify the pathological mechanisms of LAMA2-RD in humans and new therapeutic targets.For our small LAMA2 France association, our priority is to be able to provide practical support to researcher [...]
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