Yick Lam, B.S. Chemistry, University of Rochester; Ph.D. Chemistry, Yale University

Yick Chong Lam was raised in Rochester, NY and attended the University of Rochester, from which he graduated with a B.S. Degree in Chemistry. Throughout his undergraduate career, he has conducted research in the Fasan Lab, working on developing methods that exploit unnatural amino acid mutagenesis towards synthesizing cyclic peptides. As an early-start graduate student in the Brudvig Lab, he has also worked on synthesizing corrole derivatives capable of electron transfer reactions for dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells. In the Crawford Lab, Yick is harnessing the modularity of select metabolic pathways to engineer new bioactive macromolecules.