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Master's degree in health biology: metabolic and vascular diseases

Training is focused on research and patient care in areas that represent public health issues: nutrition, metabolic and cardiovascular pathologies.

Access to training

The Master's degree in Health Biology Research is intended for students in the scientific and health fields.

See the application conditions and the administrative registration procedure.

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Access to training

The Master's degree in Health Biology Research is intended for students in the scientific and health fields.

See the application conditions and the administrative registration procedure.

Objectives of the training

The training provides the necessary basis for the study of atherothrombogenic mechanisms with nutritional, immunological and metabolic components, as observed in metabolic diseases with vascular risk (diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, renal failure, antiphospholipid syndromes, dysgravidia).

Beyond the teaching of nutritional, metabolic and vascular aspects, the training is completed by :

  • methodological and conceptual skills
  • in the clinical, preclinical and regulatory fields.

It thus opens up prospects in related research themes and multidisciplinary projects, including in structures on the fringes of research (food industry, health control and health promotion agencies).

Schéma du système cardiovasculaire
Maladies métaboliques et vasculaires

Cette spécialité, outre sa propre cohérence scientifique nutritionnelle, métabolique et vasculaire, souhaite ouvrir l’esprit du chercheur en formation vers des compétences méthodologiques ou conceptuelles et vers des aspects précliniques, cliniques ou réglementaires qui lui permettront d’évoluer vers des thématiques voisines, de s’intégrer dans des projets multidisciplinaires ou bien encore de s’insérer dans des structures en marge de la recherche comme l’industrie agro-alimentaire ou les agences de contrôle sanitaire et de promotion de la santé.

Opportunities

The research master's programme primarily prepares students for the pursuit of a doctoral thesis in science.

Obtaining a master's degree and a doctoral thesis in science represents a privileged mode of access to careers in management in :

  • Public research institutions (INSERM, CNRS, INRA) and universities involved in fundamental fields related to human nutrition, metabolic diseases and atherothrombosis.
  • pharmaceutical and/or food processing industries
  • health and public health monitoring agencies (ANSES, HAS, ANSM, etc.)
  • hospital centres (as hospital practitioners, doctors, pharmacists, scientific biologists)
  • National and European Public Health Projects (PNNS)

Profil des étudiants

  • Filières de santé civile et militaire (médecins, pharmaciens, vétérinaires, odontologistes, sages-femmes) - détenteurs de 24 ECTS de M1 assortis de la validation du 2ème cycle
  • Filières scientifiques - détenteurs de 60 ECTS de M1

Lessons Learned Program

  • Master 1 - General programme of courses
  • Master 2 - General programme of courses
  • Semester 1 - List of teachings

    Common core:

    • Introduction to major human pathologies
    • Ethics and Biomedical Research
    • Metabolic diseases with vascular risk: molecular approach
    • General Microbiology
    • Basics of medical and molecular genetics
    • Molecular bases of biotherapies
    • Health and Environment
    • Healthy Biostatistics
    • Research and Communication Methodology in English
    • Introduction to Biological Anthropology
  • Semester 2 - List of courses and internships

    Compulsory teaching units :

    • Basics of genetic counselling, risk calculation
    • Genomic Medicine and Bioinformatics
    • Prenatal Diagnosis 1: Basics
    • Oncogenetics
    • Basics of psychology
    • Pathology

    Choice of optional modules :

    • Ethics and Scientific Integrity
    • Molecular Biology: Molecular Mechanism in Physiopathology
    • Human Molecular and Medical Genetics in depth
    • Pathophysiology of infectious diseases
    • Bio evolution
    • Vascular pathologies
    • Thrombotic diseases
    • Bases of oncogenesis
    • Genome Instability, Inflammation and Cancer: The Basics
    • Tumor microenvironment
    • Stem cells and cancer
    • Fertility, infertility and fertility preservation
    • Introduction to animal models
    • Clinical research and simulation
    • Gene, metabolism and nutrition

    Internship in Genetic Service (5 weeks) (6 ECTS)

    Introduction to pathology (3 weeks) (3 ECTS)

  • Semester 3 - List of teachings

    Compulsory teaching units (core curriculum) :

    • Host Response
    • Transversal genomics
    • Bibliographic project

    Specific and optional teaching units :

    • Molecular, experimental and behavioural bases of metabolic diseases at vascular risk
    • Vascular pathophysiology, cellular, molecular and pharmacological aspects
    • Molecular and cellular mechanisms of thrombosis
    • Nutrition and Health
    • Preclinical and clinical imaging for the study of pathologies
  • Semester 4 - Internship

    • Internship in a professional environment

Training ground

Consult a list of research units and laboratories hosting internships in Aix-Marseille and in France (non-exhaustive list).

Contact for training managers

Persons in charge of the biology and health field

Professor Pierre MORANGE

Email: pierre-emmanuel.morange@univ-amu.fr

Professor Christophe DUBOIS

Email: christophe.dubois@univ-amu.fr

Tel : 04 91 32 46 80

Address: Inserm URM-S-1076, Faculty of Pharmacy

Head of the Metabolic and Vascular Diseases Speciality

Professor Anne DUTOUR

Email: anne.dutour@ap-hm.fr

Tel : 04 91 32 45 04

Address: UMR INSERM 1062 nutrition, obesity and thrombotic risk, INRA 1260

Faculty of Medical and Paramedical Sciences, 3rd floor blue wing