17 Q&A with HKUST Chemistry Majors 讀化學的人：與科大學子對談 Samuel LEE 李愷卓 Undergraduate Year 3 student majoring in Chemistry 化學系本科三年級生 By Daria Zaitseva Dr. Ho Nam CHAN 陳昊楠博士 Chief Technology Officer at Biorocks PhD in Chemistry, 2016 BSc in Chemistry, 2012 拜爾洛克首席技術官 哲學博士（化學）（2016） 理學士（化學）（2012） Dr. Abigail WANG 王知恩博士 Process Engineer at Lam Research PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025 BSc in Chemistry, 2020 科林研發工程師 麻省理工學院哲學博士 （材料科學與工程學）（2025） 理學士（化學）（2020） What inspired you to major in chemistry? 甚麼啟發你選擇主修化學？ Samuel My choice was chemistry because I want to work in the pharmaceutical industry, especially in the drug discovery field. I grew up in an ordinary family, so when we are hit with medical bills, insurance does not always cover everything. We have to look for funding and see who is merciful enough to grant us money to buy those expensive drugs. After learning that drugs can be made by synthesis, I thought there should be a way for companies to find a cheaper route to produce drugs. So that's what I want to do in my career. 我選擇主修化學是因為我想在製藥行業工作，尤其在藥物研發方面。我在一個普通家庭長大，當我們面臨醫療帳單時， 保險並不總是能涵蓋所有費用，因此我們必須尋找資助，看看哪個有心人能資助我們購買昂貴的藥物。在得知可以透過 合成方法製造藥物後，我猜世上應該存在一些合成路徑可以讓藥廠利用更便宜的方法製藥，這就是我未來想從事的職業。 Abigail I'm not familiar with business or engineering because I didn't take those classes back in high school, so I went with science. In the first year of university, we took all kinds of classes. I don't recall having a strong preference, but math and physics were slightly too hard for me. There are lots of unfamiliar English terms in life science because I studied biology in Chinese back in high school. Therefore, chemistry was the least challenging subject for me. I found it OK to learn chemistry, so I chose chemistry. It was a very practical choice. 我對商學或工程並不熟悉，因為我在高中時沒有選修相關科目，所以大學選修了理學。在大學的第一年，我們上了各種各 樣的課程。我記得自己沒有強烈的偏好，但數學和物理對我來說略為困難。生命科學中也有很多陌生的英文語彙，因為我在高 中時用中文學習生物。因此，化學對我來說是當中挑戰性最低的科目，而我對學習化學感覺還好，所以就選擇了化學。這是一 個非常實際的選擇。
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