Dr. Marie-Angélique Sene, Ph.D. - Head, Advanced Vaccine Bioprocessing, Institut Pasteur de Dakar - Advanced Vaccine Manufacturing And Africa’s Health Future

Dr. Marie-Angélique Sene, Ph.D. is Head of Advanced Vaccine Bioprocessing at the Institut Pasteur de Dakar ( https://institutpasteurdakar.sn/ ), one of the most strategically important vaccine manufacturing and research centers in the world—particularly as Africa works to build long-term, sovereign capacity to develop and produce its own vaccines, and she leads their laboratory responsible for the acquisition and transfer of novel technology. 

Dr. Sene began her studies in engineering school studying Material Science, Mechanical Engineering, Quantum Physics, and Relativity while conducting research at one of the French Atomic Energy Commission laboratories. 

Afterwards, Dr. Sene joined the graduate program in Seoul National University to do her Master’s work, specializing in Micro/Nano engineering, while overseeing the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center’s photolithography equipment quality control and offering consulting services for local Korean companies wishing to integrate micro/nanotechnology to their Point-of-Care devices. 

Dr. Sene worked on projects from various fields such as Agriculture, Green Energies, Semiconductors, Optics, and Health among others. 

Dr. Sene now specializes in Vaccines manufacturing and applies her previously acquired knowledge to this field to contribute in the effort to advance equitable access to vaccines. 

During her Ph.D. at McGill University in the Kamen Lab, with a focus on Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Dr. Sene obtained a patent as main inventor, in collaboration with Sanofi-Pasteur, focusing on the genetic engineering of the Vero cell vaccine production platform, providing new possibilities to quickly generate high throughput, globally accessible, and pandemic ready cell-based vaccine platforms to efficiently protect global populations from current and emerging diseases. 

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