%0 Journal Article
%T Yimon Aye: Crossing Borders with Chemical Biology
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%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2018.11.004
%X I grew up in Burma at a time when the universities were shut for a decade, so I was forced to seek my higher education abroad. I was fortunate to receive scholarships that made it possible for me to do high-school and undergraduate studies in the UK. I read chemistry at Oxford (UK) for 4 years and in 2009 I received my PhD degree in organic chemistry with Professor Dave Evans at Harvard (USA). After a decade-long training period in chemistry, I decided to switch fields and learned the ropes of biochemistry from the ground up, as I began my postdoc training with Professor JoAnne Stubbe at MIT. In mid-2012, I established my independent laboratory and our formative years were spent at Cornell (Ithaca) before we were competitively recruited by EPFL (Switzerland) on a tenured position in chemical biology. In August 2018, my team members and I established the Laboratory of Electrophiles and Genome Operation (LEAGO) at EPFL
%U https://www.cell.com/trends/biochemical-sciences/fulltext/S0968-0004(18)30235-4