As a partner of the Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet de la Vocation and strongly committed to equal opportunities, Fondation CNP Assurances sponsors Sandra Sara, a genetics student from Lebanon, to support her in her professional project and enable her to complete her internship abroad. The Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet de la Vocation supports talented young individuals, to whom it provides an annual Prize to help them fulfil their professional ambitions.
The purpose of Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet de la Vocation is to foster all vocations and support young people who need help to work in the profession they have chosen. Every year, it awards Prizes to the most deserving young people in all areas of activity, to help them fulfil their professional project.
A partner of Fondation de la Vocation, Fondation CNP Assurances has been engaged since 2015 in the fight against social inequalities in healthcare by sponsoring young graduates pursuing careers in the medical, paramedical and medico-social sectors. For the 2021 edition, it awarded the prize to Sandra Sara, a 21-year-old genetics student, who will be able to continue her studies in France and finance her internship.
Biography of Sandra Sara
Originally from Lebanon, where she did not have the opportunity to study genetics, Sandra Sara joined the University of Paris-Diderot after finishing her scientific baccalaureate/A-levels to do a "Life Sciences" undergraduate degree, with the aim of subsequently completing the European Masters in Genetics. Affected by the economic crisis in Lebanon, where her father is a bus driver and her mother a seamstress, she has to work to finance her studies while also completing several internships, sometimes resorting to emergency aid and academic solidarity.
This prize will enable her to cover her daily expenses and finance her Master's internship, which she will carry out abroad.
Sandra's will to become a genetic researcher has become stronger and stronger over time and is an increasingly important part of her life. Her aim is to solve enigmas, decode the mystery of life contained in genomes, understand the origin of many diseases transmitted from generation to generation, and ultimately try to limit their effects.