| Honorific Prefix: | Associate professor |
| Native Name Lang: | my |
| Citizenship: | US-American |
| Known For: | Electrophile signaling Nucleotide signaling pathways |
| Relatives: | Soe Thein (father) |
| Website: | https://leago.epfl.ch |
| Education: | Chemistry |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral Advisor: | David A. Evans |
| Academic Advisors: | JoAnne Stubbe |
| Discipline: | Biology |
| Sub Discipline: | Molecular Biology |
| Workplaces: | EPFL |
| Main Interests: | Synthetic Methodology Chemical Biology Biochemistry Biophysics Molecular Biology Cell Biology |
Yimon Aye (Burmese: ရည်မွန်အေး; born 12 July 1980[1] in Burma) is an American chemist and molecular biologist. Currently she is an associate professor of chemistry at EPFL.
Aye spent her early life in Burma. She completed her undergraduate studies in chemistry at the University of Oxford and obtained her master's degree in 2004.[2] She joined Harvard University to study synthetic organic chemistry with David A. Evans, achieving her PhD in 2009.[3] She then moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation fellow to work with JoAnne Stubbe. There she performed research into the regulatory mechanisms of ribonucleotide reductase.[4] In 2012, she started as an assistant professor at Cornell University, where she began her work on redox-dependent cell signaling and genome maintenance pathways. During this time, she developed REX technologies, new methods to facilitate the study of unconventional electrophile-regulated stress signaling paradigms.[5] REX technologies were one of the first approaches to forge direct links between upstream protein alteration by a reactive molecule and downstream responses.
In 2018, she was appointed as an associate professor of chemistry at EPFL.[6] Since August 2018, she has been leading the Laboratory of Electrophiles And Genome Operation (LEAGO) of the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC) at EPFL.[7]
Yimon Aye's father Soe Thein is a former Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Navy.[8] She has one brother, Aye Chan (b. 1973) and one sister, Thida Aye (b. 1973).