Alice Duchon is a Staff Scientist at the HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, National Cancer Institute NCI-Frederick, Frederick, MD, USA. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Dickinson College and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from The Ohio State University. She has focused primarily on examining the mechanisms of HIV-1 virus replication and assembly. She has studied the roles of different host cell machinery in HIV virus assembly as well as aspects of viral proteins that are essential for RNA packaging using a wide array of biochemical, cell-based, and microscopy techniques.