"My name is Edward, Edward Yue.
Here we are in Dr. Lee Lab at UC, Irvine.
The project I'm working on is double emulsion droplets activated by a high intensity ultrasound.
We use the double emulsion droplets as a drug carrier to carry the cancer drugs and use
ultrasound to get it released My grandfather died of lung cancer.
Right now in the lab I think the technology we have could help people stay healthy.
I'm from China.
Rather than a scientist I prefer to say I'm an engineer.
When I was a child I really liked to build things like radios or a toy; just to break
them down and rebuild them just to see the mechanics in them.
The first time I really wanted to get into this field was Dr. Lee's lab on chip class.
In his class he mentioned a lot of phenomenon that we can see in our daily life like why
insects can stay on the surface of the water.
Why, when it's raining outside, we can see some droplets stay on the window.
That's all the microfluidic phenomenon so I thought that was very interesting things.
It just made me want to dig into this field.
That's a microfluidic channel here.
Working in the lab I know everything, I can control everything.
I know how to use a microscope.
I know what the drug is for and I know what can I use the computer for so I'm pretty confident
when I'm working in the lab.
This is my world and I feel like I can do everything in the lab.
Just focus on your things and the lab will provide you with everything you need.
This is a droplet.
This is a droplet that I made.
You can see here, the pink color one that is the double emulsion droplet I made.
I think with this technology we can build a device like every month you need to check
them yourself.
You just buy a box of microfluidic chips and every month you put out one chip to check
if you're too much blood pressure or if you have cancer or some other kind of disease.
It feels like for young kids, if they have a passion about science, if they want to know
the fundamental knowledge they are learning in school can apply to what field, they should
come to the lab to use their knowledge to build up things of their own.
Just come to the lab and stay here and you will finally find your own interests."