Status:Closed

Opening date: 15 September 2025

Closing date: 3 November 2025

Mission

This call for applications - Special Mission aims to promote and encourage young researchers (PhD students) and local laboratory staff working in the field of rare diseases to participate and present their work at the Assises de Génétique Humaine et Médicale 2026 national conference, to be held in Cannes, France, from January 27 to 30, 2026.

Grants are awarded for active participation only(abstract submission required for oral or poster presentation) and cover early registration, travel and accommodation expenses for each participant.

Applicants to this Mission Special call may not apply to the Mission Dissemination/Collaboration call currently open.

The maximum budget per participant is €600.

Application documents :

Winners - Mission spécial Assises de Génétique Humaine et Médicale 2026

Project title (submitted abstract)

Last name - First name

Supervisor - Laboratory, team

Focused ultrasound-mediated gene replacement therapy as a therapeutic approach in Rett syndrome BOURCIN Léna JC Roux / JL Gaiarsa - MMG/INMED (Villard/Muscatelli)
Development of capture techniques for targeted Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing applied to SORD and RFC1 loci in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease CASTRO Christel Valérie Delague - MMG (GBiM platform)
Implementation of transcriptomic analysis (RNAseq) for the diganosis of muscle diseases FAYE Pape Svetlana GoroKhova - MMG (Bartoli)
From patients to iPSC cells to model and study the effects of a perilipin variant HENRIQUES James Camille Desgrouas - C2VN (Morange)
Development of complex cellular models to explore the pathophysiology of MADaM progeroid syndrome NAEL Sara Ali Badache - MMG (Magdinier)
Identification of bi-allelic variants in IGHMBP2 involved in SMARD1 neuropathy by combined high-throughput genome and transcriptome sequencing PROVOST Coralie Valérie Delague - MMG (Bartoli)

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Marie-Cécile
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Project officer, Scientific Referent
MMG Marseille Medical Genetics, MarMaRa office - Campus Marseille Timone