Lund University, Sweden

Prof. Sara Linse is the vice chair of Biophysical Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and of the international committee for calcium-binding proteins in health and disease. She is the winner of the Arrhenius Medal of the Swedish Chemical Society, the Hugo Theorell Award by Swedish Biophysics Society, and is distinguished as an Excellent Researcher of the Swedish Research Council. She studies protein structure and folding, misfolding, ligand binding, protein chemistry, protein-protein interactions, the role of non-covalent interactions in proteins. She has developed experimental methods and software that are used world-wide.

Among her achievements is the unravelling of the molecular details of HAMLET – a protein-fatty acid complex that selectively kills tumour cells, and the discovery of redox regulation of an anti-apoptotic neuronal protein. She is considered a world-leading expert on protein-calcium interaction and co-operativity by scientists in the field.