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Algoa Progress

ALGOA PROGRESS is a “New Business from Research Ideas” (TUTLI) project funded by Business Finland and the European Regional Development Fund. The project aims to explore the commercial potential of an algorithm that can predict the progression of osteoarthritis. The project seeks to lay both technological and commercial foundations for a novel technology that allows individualized treatment planning for people with, e.g. osteoarthritis. The objective of this type of treatment planning would be to prevent osteoarthritis or to slow down its progression.

The project is based on long-term basic and applied research carried out by the Biophysics of Bone and Cartilage research group (http://luotain.uef.fi/) at the Department of Applied Physics, UEF, as well as on utilising these research findings in computational modelling.

Anette Hall (anette.hall@uef.fi)

Academic Degrees

  • D.Sc. (Tech.) in Technical Physics (Computational Biophysics), Tampere University of Technology, 2011
  • M.Sc. (Tech.) in Technical Physics (Computational Biophysics), Tampere University of Technology, 2007

Major Positions and Appointments

  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Neurology, University of Eastern Finland, 2011-
  • Researcher, Ph.D. Student, Department of Physics (Biological Physics), Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 2007-2011
  • Research Assistant, M.Sc. Student, Department of Physics (Biological Physics), Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 2006-2007
  • Research Assistant, Department of Physics  (Applied Optics), Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 2004
  • Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 2007-2010

Annele Virtanen (annele.virtanen@uef.fi)

Head of the Aerosol Physics Research Group: http://www.uef.fi/aerosol/
I received my PhD in Tampere University of Technology (TUT, Department of Physics) 2004. After that I continued working as a postdoc and group leader at TUT. On January 2012 I moved to University of Eastern Finland (UEF) to lead the Aerosol Physics Laboratory. I have a strong background in measurement method development and applications related to atmospheric aerosols. My major research questions are related to the atmospheric aerosols: how they form, what are their properties and what is the role they play in the Earth’s climate through their interactions with water vapour. To study these questions in a comprehensive way I have established a wide international collaborative networks and consistently developed our own research infrastructure at UEF.
Major part of my research is funded by EU Framework program (e.g. project FORCeS, EUROCHAMP2020, ERC Starting Grant project QAPPA) and Academy of Finland.

Arezoo Rahmani (arezoo.rahmani@uef.fi)

I am a PhD student in Pharmaceutical Physics Group, Department of Applied Physics. My research field is about extraction of metals from ore and aqueous solution with functionalized nanoporous silicon adsorbent.

Eero Koponen (eero.koponen@uef.fi)

My PhD study focuses on developing methods for characterizing ultrasound fields using an acousto-optic based optical tomography. In general, my research areas include schlieren imaging, tomography, and ultrasound related physics.

Emilia Happonen (emiliah@uef.fi)

I graduated from the Department of Applied Physics in 2019. Later that year, I started as a PhD student in the Pharmaceutical Physics group. The topic of my PhD thesis is drug-free biomimetic porous silicon nanoparticles to inhibit tumor metastasis.

Janne Mäkelä (janne.makela@uef.fi)

Currently interested in contrast media and biolubricants in the early diagnosis and treatment of osteoarthritis. What is the potential of new contrast media in imaging of articular cartilage? How do you best use radiographic imaging to monitor the progression of osteoarthritis over time, and how does a synthetic biopolymer, that lubricates and reinforces the tissue, slow down the disease progression?
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