Alice Cheung is an American biochemist who is a professor of molecular biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Her parents decided that she and her brother would attend university in the United States, and Cheung moved to Smith College to complete her undergraduate studies.
[citation needed] Her doctoral research considered the genetic and biochemical regulation of aminoacyl tRNA synthetase.
After completing her doctoral research, Cheung joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow, learning more about chloroplast-nuclear interactions, and reading work on self-incompatibility performed by Adrienne Clarke in Nicotiana alata and by June Nasrallah in Brassica oleracea.
Her research considers the role of signalling strategies in plants,[2] with a particular focus on the communication between pollen and pistil, which ultimately leads to fertilisation.