Prof. Ville Kaila awarded prize from Göran Gustafsson’s Foundation

Professor Ville Kaila from the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, is one of this year's laureates of the prestigious Göran Gustafsson Prize.

Ville Kaila. Photographer: Marcus Marcetic

The Göran Gustafsson Prize is the most prestigious prize in Sweden for researchers up to the age of 45. The prize has previously been awarded to researchers who later won the Nobel Prize.

The laureates of 2025 will receive SEK 7.5 million each, of which SEK 7.2 million is a research grant and SEK 300,000 is a personal award. In total, the researchers will share SEK 37.5 million.

The Chemistry Prize to Ville Kaila

Ville Kaila, Professor of Biochemistry at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, is awarded this year's prize in chemistry ‘for the study of molecular mechanisms of biological charge transport’.

Ville Kaila now hopes that his research will also contribute to new biomedical knowledge.

- We wish to rebuild the protein machinery powering biological energy conversion and modify its building blocks to obtain a complete view of the charge transport. If we can understand these processes at the molecular level, we can also unravel the link to certain diseases.

This is high-risk research that he dreamed of, but had not previously been able to carry out.

- The Göran Gustafsson Prize is remarkable news for us. In addition to the generous grant, it is a great honour to be recognised in this way.

Read the full interview with Prof. Ville Kaila and the other laureates on the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ website (in Swedish), Fem forskare får dela på 37,5 miljoner från Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse

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We develop methodology consisting of computational biochemistry in combination with biochemical and biophysical experiments in order to better understand the energy conversion enabled by complex enzymes.

Last updated: March 10, 2025

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