On December 20, organized by Association of Advancing Life and Regenerating Motherland (ALARM), Global Myanmar (GMF), an intellectual event was held. The event is a part of the European Union (EU) fun-ded “Environmental Watch for Environmental Governance” Project. The first GMF was held in 2015 and three young scientists in the field of microbiology, public health and renewable energy had joined and contributed to enriched discussion. For Second GMF in 2017, Dr Yimon Aye and Ye Aung were invited.
Dr Yimon Aye a Howard Milstein faculty fellow and assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences with a secondary appointment at Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of the Bio chemistry. She was born and raised in Myanmar. Kamaryut TTC was her high school. After the high school, she went to the United Kingdom (UK) to study for sixth form (high school) and then read chemistry at Oxford University. She then moved to Harvard University, USA, achieving a PH.D in organic chemistry. In her independent career at Cornell University that began in mid-2012, she set out to understand the detailed mechanisms of redox signaling. Yimon Aye is one of six winners of this year’s Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research, which supports New York-based scientists exploring innovative avenues in the fight against cancer.
Ye Aung is recent Myanmar graduate of Saint Andrews University, Scotland in Msc, Data Intensive Analysis. His most recent collaboration with Dr.Ognjen Arandjelovic has accomplished the design of a state of the art machinelearning algorithm for detecting cancer from cell images in histological slides. The purpose of conducting GMF is to increase intellectual networking between the youth in Myanmar who aspire to advance their scientific study abroad and those Myanmar scholars who have well established their international career in science and innovation. In doing so, Myanmar youth may benefit in understanding the current trend of international research and academic focus so that they can prepare themselves for developing their professional pathway internationally.
