My name is Yam-Yuen Lam, a third-year Pharmacy student in the Bouve College of Pharmacy. I have been in Professor Davies’s research group since my freshmen year and I like the work I have done in the lab. I learnt a lot of different lab techniques that will help me in the future because I am interested in pursing a Ph. D. degree in Pharmacology and being a researcher in a drug company.

Humic substances have been found to be strong chelating agents. So far, I have done a number of experiments on metal-loaded humic substances. The metal I used is lead, which is a major environmental hazard in soils with severe public health effects, especially for infants and young children. Now I am continuing an experiment on how lead binds to humic substances at different temperatures. So, we can have enough data to draw an isotherm curve to see the binding of lead by humic substances.

I am performing some experiments to study the exchange of heavy metals like lead for other metals like calcium. Hence, we might be able to see if it is possible to use these substances or some similar synthetic polymers in drugs for patients with metal toxicity.

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