[3] Alice Huang’s mother, Grace Betty Soong, was from Jiangxi Province where her family had large land holdings.
Alice Huang's research focused on defective interfering particles (DIPs) which can be utilized to combat viruses.
Alice Huang's work on DIPs has been utilized to combat cancer, HIV, and plant related diseases.
[6] At Johns Hopkins and MIT her work for Robert R. Wagner and future husband David Baltimore was "to purify and characterize interfering viral particles".
[1] They studied the inhibition of cellular RNA synthesis by nonreplicating vesicular stomatitis virus, known to infect horses, cattle and swine.
[8][9] Huang and Baltimore coauthored a paper with Martha Stampfer titled "Ribonucleic acid synthesis of vesicular stomatitis virus, II.
This paper went on to show that “the virions of vesicular stomatitis virus contain an enzyme that catalyzes the incorporation of ribonucleotides into RNA”.
[7] At Harvard Medical School, Huang continued to study how mutant strains produced by rabies-like virus interfered with further growth of the viral infection.
[11] Huang is an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees of the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (KGI).