Inflammation and Inflammatory diseases are a major issue for the 21st century. Inflammation is associated with most diseases whether as a primary cause (asthma, atherosclerosis, glomerulonephritis, fibrosis, …) or as one of the initial factors (cancer, infectious diseases, …)

Instead of teaching common principles of inflammation, most current cursus address inflammation through the scope of a particular pathology. To address this lack of global teaching and to train new generations of scientists and MDs, the Master Inflammation and Inflammatory Disease » (IID) specialty uses interdisciplinary and translational approaches to give students a broad understanding of the inflammatory process. Teaching is at the interface between fundamental research and applied/clinical research. Thus, lecturer are given by French and European high-level researchers and clinicians with a strong expertise in their field. Teaching at the master 2 level is in English.   

The IID master is a priority for the Laboratory of Excellence Inflamex that brings together the expertise on Inflammation of 11 research teams from the University Paris Diderot, Paris Descartes and Paris 13.

The IID master program is made of a teaching unit at Master 1 level and of a Master 2. The TU in M1 introduces the basic principles of inflammation while the M2 master offers in-depth courses on the actors of inflammation, molecular mechanisms involved in normal and pathological inflammation, the physiopathology of various inflammtory diseases and their treatment as well as a hands-on 6 month research project.