Kyra Fortuin, Alumni and professional hockeyplayer

Why CPS?

“The CPS curriculum contains such a wide variety of courses in the field of pharmaceutical research. Obviously, there were some courses which were less appealing than others, but overall, I have immensely enjoyed my time as a CPS student. I love the hands-on approach that most courses had. The courses really encouraged us as students to immediately apply the knowledge we gained during the course in the group project which had to be delivered. I really like that CPS is such a small study with a lot of group work. This created the feeling of a sort of CPS family, as everyone was so familiar with each other.

Challenging projects combined with professional hockey career

You could make your time as CPS student as challenging as you would like it to be - students had their A-game on for everything - by conducting extended research or extra honours projects. I think I have tried to deliver my best performance for everything that I have done during my CPS studies. In combination with my professional hockey career, it sometimes was ambitious to get everything done in time and stay fully energized. But most importantly it gave me a lot of satisfaction and pride. I am truly proud of my performances and delivered projects and it only confirmed my passion for pharmaceutical sciences. My next step will be the Drug Innovation master, for which I am 100% sure that my CPS background will help me tremendously.”