VU Amsterdam - A Better World@VU

In this episode we meet Beatrice Guastella, a 25-year-old Italian. She just finished her masters on Bioinformatics & System Biology at VU Amsterdam. Now she’s working as a junior researcher on predictive pharmacology, and she dreams of a world without animal testing. To reach that goal, she’s implementing a three-dimensional mathematical model that represents a rat brain.

Show Notes

In this episode we meet Beatrice Guastella, a 25-year-old Italian. She just finished her masters on Bioinformatics & System Biology at VU Amsterdam. Now she’s working as a junior researcher on predictive pharmacology, and she dreams of a world without animal testing. To reach that goal, she’s implementing a three-dimensional mathematical model that represents a rat brain.

What is VU Amsterdam - A Better World@VU?

In this 5-part series VU Press officer Marieke Theunissen explores the latest projects on sustainability at VU Amsterdam. This series is part of exhibition A Better World@VU. The main goal of the exhibition is to show projects of VU students and employees that contribute to a more sustainable world. Both near and far from VU Amsterdam.