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Alice Klein

Australia reporter

Bio

Alice Klein is a reporter based in Sydney who mainly writes about health, biology and the environment. She has a PhD in chemistry from the University of Sydney and has worked as a staff journalist at New Scientist since 2016, after previously working as a reporter at Australian Doctor.

Alice has won several awards. In 2024, she won the UK Medical Journalists' Association’s Gordon McVie Cancer Reporting Award for her article about genetically-engineered bacteria for treating cancer, and was shortlisted for the same prize in 2023 for her piece on personalised cancer vaccines. In 2021, she won the Association of British Science Writers’ Feature of the Year Award for her article about miscarriage. She has won three journalism awards from the National Press Club of Australia, including one for her 2018 article about treating addiction. She has also won journalism awards from the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia and the Society of Publishers in Asia. Her work has been featured several times in the Best Australian Science Writing Anthology, including her story about polycystic ovary syndrome in 2023.