Chun (Alice) Li

B.S., Boston College, 2019

Alice grows up in Shanghai, China and first came to the US for high school in Connecticut at the age of 16. She then moved to Boston College, where she majored in biochemistry and joined Prof. Eranthie Weerapana’s group to study cysteine proteomics. Her projects include developing a pair of isotopically-labeled iodoacetamide-alkyne probes for quantitative cysteine reactivity profiling, and applying them to study cysteine reactivity in the endoplasmic reticulum under oxidative stress. After undergraduate studies, Alice worked at Moderna as a research associate to perform lipid nanoparticle (LNP) formulation, and interned at Zai Lab Shanghai to do antibody engineering before joining the MacMillan lab at Princeton in August, 2021. Outside of lab, Alice enjoys dancing, hanging out with friends, and hunting for great food.

Fun Facts

• Alice was trained in Chinese traditional dance, ballet, and modern, but is now obsessed with Kpop dances due to the disappearances of dance classes since the covid pandemic.
• She is proud of being able to speak Shanghainese fluently in addition to Mandarin.
• After living in the New England for 8 years, She is still not adapted to the long winters and heavy snow.