PETA Science Consortium International has awarded Alicia Reyes Valenzuela its travel grant to attend LIVe2022: Lung In Vitro Event for Innovative & Predictive Models in Nice, France from 13-14 June, 2022. The two-day event provides a platform for researchers in the respiratory toxicology field to share their work and learn more about predictive in vitro lung models and exposure systems.
Alicia Reyes Valenzuela, a PhD student in Biological and Biomedical Engineering at McGill University in Canada, focuses her research on the development of human lung organoids that can be used to study viral infections instead of testing on animals. Her goal is for her work to advance the development and implementation of non-animal models around the world, including in her native country of Mexico.