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Invitation to XIVth International Congress on Nutrition and Metabolism in Renal Disease
www.isrnm-marseilles2008.org
Marseille can claim a legendary hospitality, and an outstanding ability to promote high quality exchanges. Marseille is asserting itself as the capital of southern Europe and is positioning itself as one of the major congress destinations of the Mediterranean front. As the foremost industrial and tertiary pole of the south of France, Marseille offers the performance of its leading sectors like research, health and advanced technology to congress organizers.
Marseille proposes the dynamism and the dimension of its city development and planning programs, especially Euroméditerranée. Marseille is a city whose professionals are committed to the success of your convention.
Local scientific Committee:
Dr Noël Cano, Marseille, President
Pr Michel Aparicio, Bordeaux
Dr Raymond Azar, Dunkerque
Pr Bernard Canaud, Montpellier
Dr Philippe Chauveau, Bordeaux
Pr Chistian Combe, Bordeaux
Pr Denis Fouque, Lyon
Pr Maurice Laville, Lyon
Pr Xavier Leverve, Grenoble
Marseille, 2600 years of History
The city grew up around the Vieux-Port, on a body of water tucked into the very inlet where Greek sailors founded the original city in 600 B.C. Devoted to commerce from the outset, Massalia, as it was known to the Greeks, it became a Roman Emporium after being overrun by Caesar’s legions in 49 B.C.
The city played an active part in the Crusades, and installed its consulates in the Levant. In 1423, was devasted by the Aragonese, which prompted king René to defend it by erecting a tower at the entrance to the harbor? Absorbed into the kingdom of France in 1481, it only submitted to Louis 16th in 1660. Forts Saint-Nicolas and Saint-Jean are visible signs of royal power.
After it was enlarged and its arsenal of galleys modernized, the city lived the most painful event in its history: in 1720, the plague wiped out half of its population, killing 45 000. It soon recovered and by 1792, its people became famous. Six-hundred volunteers singing ‘The Hymn of the Army of the Rhine " composed by Rouget de l’Isle, marched on Paris to join the Revolution. The song became known as " La Marseillaise ", and is now the French national anthem. At the 19th century: French colonialism, large infrastructure projects completed during the Second Empire, and the opening of the Suez Canal helped it to extend its influence.
The city is an economic and industrial metropolis and a center of higher learning, with over 45 000 university students. It is also the France’s second largest center of research, yet Marseille is still attached to its roots and native culture that are manifested by its museums, theaters, and opera and its newly renovated 60 000 seat sports arena.
A paradise for divers and sailors, there is still wilderness for leisure activities which can be practiced all year around.
Blue is its signature color!
Marseille, research and education: a centre of excellence
Marseille Provence Metropolis is the second public research centre in France in the field of science and groups together 3,000 research scientists in the University laboratories. The graduate educational system has 3 Universities, 30 faculties and high schools with 45,000 students. | 
