Our projects

Research

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Our network

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
    October 31, 2026
    MarMaRa Summer School - BIP CIVIS 2027 - Registration Now Open
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    MarMaRa Summer School - BIP CIVIS 2027 - Registration Now Open

    The Marseille Rare Diseases Institute (MarMaRa) is organizing its second CIVIS—Europe's Civic University Alliance—international summer school in 2027, titled "

  • 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

The MarMaRa Institute in pictures

Credit: Elea Ropiot, amU