I remember, after my PharmD graduation, how happy my mother was. She said, Now that you are done with school, you have to set up your own drugstore, find a good husband and settle down. However, my destiny was far from supporting this maternal wish since my aim at that time was to become a medical researcher. I had tremendous support from my eldest brother, Mouhamadou Ndiaye, an eminent professor of cardiac and vascular surgery at the University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD). I started with two years training in clinical biochemistry, hematology and immunology at the University of Cocody in the Ivory Coast.

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