Duke University Amgen Scholars Program

Yannie Lam ’23 conducted pharmacology research as part of the Amgen Scholars Program, administered through the Office of Biomedical Graduate Education in the School of Medicine at Duke University. In addition to working in a lab, she attended weekly lectures given by researchers, spoke with current PhD students, and presented her research to other students and faculty at the Amgen Scholars North America Symposium at the University of California, Los Angeles. “The program made me want to pursue a PhD. I’d never done biochemical research before, so this was a really good lab environment where I got to try something new. I realized that I’m really interested in translational research where you figure out how to solve problems related to human disease.”