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Associate professor Yimon Aye | |
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ရည်မွန်အေး | |
 Yimon Aye in 2018 | |
| Born | 12 July 1980 (1980-07-12) (age 45) |
| Citizenship | US-American |
| Known for | Electrophile signaling Nucleotide signaling pathways |
| Relatives | Soe Thein (father) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Chemistry |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | David A. Evans |
| Other advisor | JoAnne Stubbe |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Biology |
| Sub-discipline | Molecular Biology |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Main interests | Synthetic Methodology Chemical Biology Biochemistry Biophysics Molecular Biology Cell Biology |
| Website | https://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/people/yimon-aye |
Yimon Aye (Burmese:ရည်မွန်အေး; born 12 July 1980[1] inBurma) is an Americanchemist andmolecular biologist. Currently she is a professor of chemistry & chemical biology atUniversity of Oxford.[2]
Aye spent her early life inBurma. She completed her undergraduate studies inchemistry at theUniversity of Oxford and obtained her master's degree in 2004.[3] She joinedHarvard University to studysynthetic organic chemistry withDavid A. Evans, achieving herPhD in 2009.[4] She then moved toMassachusetts Institute of Technology as aDamon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation fellow to work withJoAnne Stubbe. There she performed research into the regulatory mechanisms ofribonucleotide reductase.[5]
In 2012, she started as an assistant professor atCornell University, where she began her work on redox-dependentcell signaling andgenome maintenance pathways. During this time, she developed REX technologies, new methods to facilitate the study of unconventional electrophile-regulated stress signaling paradigms.[6][7] REX technologies were one of the first approaches to forge direct links between upstream protein alteration by a reactive molecule and downstream responses.[4] From August 2018 to August 2024 she was an associate professor of chemistry atEPFL.[8]
Since September 2024 she's leading the Aye Lab atUniversity of Oxford.[2]
Aye was awarded the NSF CAREER award and Beckman Young Investigator award in 2014,[9][10] the 2020 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry,[11] the 2022 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award,[12] and the Klaus Grohe Prize 2024.[13]
Yimon Aye's fatherSoe Thein is a former Commander-in-Chief of theMyanmar Navy.[14] She has a brother and a sister.[1]
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