Portraits of Potential

How Marie-Angélique Sène is empowering Africa’s vaccine future

A portrait of Dr. Marie-Angélique Sène inside the lab at the Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Dakar, Senegal.
A portrait of Dr. Marie-Angélique Sène inside the lab of the Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal. ©Gates Archive/Carmen Yasmine Abd Ali
A portrait of Dr. Sène Marie-Angélique, Head of Microbiology and Analytical Development Lab, outside of the Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal, on June 22, 2022.

We cannot build leaders by keeping them backstage. We build them by letting them go out in the world and learn from their mistakes.

Dr. Marie-Angélique Sène
©Gates Archive/Carmen Yasmine Abd Ali

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