Alice Yen-Ping Ting is a professor of bio-organic chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Alice Ting was born in Taiwan and emigrated to the United States when she was three years old. She was raised in Texas and attended the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS). She received her BS in Chemistry from Harvard in 1996, working with E.J. Corey. She completed her Ph.D. with Peter G. Schultz from University of California, Berkeley in 2000. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship with 2008 Nobel Laureate Roger Y. Tsien.
She joined the MIT Chemistry Department in 2002 where she is now an Associate Professor. Her research harnesses the power of natural enzymes to help image protein function in living cells. She has received a number of awards, including a 2008 NIH Director's Pioneer Award[1] and a 2010 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society.