The Marseille Rare Diseases institute MarMaRa within the Aix-Marseille University launches a PhD program for 2023. The program is divided into rare diseases and cross-cutting trainings.
These trainings are opened in priority to PhD students but if the maximum capacity of attendees is not reached, Master students, engineers and researchers are welcomed. As all trainings are in English and almost all are in distance, the courses are open to European and international students.
After each training, the participants will receive a certificate of attendance and PhD students can have up to 7h/training validated by their Doctoral School.
The trainings are addressed particularly to PhD students with a special interest in rare diseases and focus on how rare diseases are coordinated and structured at national and European level. As such, the participants have the possibility to learn more about pre-clinical development, medical genetics, microscopy, or statistics. Additionally, the programme offers to its students the possibility to start and develop their professional network in the field of rare diseases.
The rare diseases trainings include: Rare disease ecosystem; Models and Pre-clinical Development for Rare Diseases; Biomedical ethics; Research data management; Fundamental notions in Medical Genetics.
The cross-cutting trainings are the following: Introduction to microscopy for cell and tissue imaging; Statistics for genomics: continuous probability distributions; Statistics for genomics: discrete probability distributions; Workshop on bulk RNA-seq.
More information regarding the doctoral programme of the MarMaRa Institute can be accessed in the booklet available here or directly on the website, here.
CIVIS is a European University Alliance gathering 11 member universities: Aix-Marseille Université (France), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), University of Bucharest (Romania), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italia), Stockholm University (Sweden), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), University of Glasgow (UK), Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria) and University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Selected by the European Commission as one of the first 17 European Universities pilots, it brings together around half a million students and more than 70 000 staff members, including 37 400 academics and researchers.