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• Erna Kaleva defended her thesis "Optimization of Quantitative High-Frequency Ultrasound Imaging of Articular Cartilage" successfully on December 11, 2009. Her opponent was Principal Research Scientist Jun-Kyo Francis Suh, Ph.D. from Korea Institute of Science and Technology.
  
  
• University of Kuopio is going to merge with the other universities in eastern Finland. The new university, called the University of Eastern Finland, will formally be established from 1st of January 2010. The transition is already ongoing, and for example, the e-mail addresses have changed to firstname.surname@uef.fi. Please use new e-mail addresses when contacting BBC-group! November 6, 2009
  
  
• PhD Student Antti Aula was awarded a grant by the Foundation for Advanced Technology of Eastern Finland. November 2, 2009
  
  
• Panu Kiviranta defended his thesis "Novel Quantitative Methods for the Diagnosis of Cartilage Degeneration" successfully on August 21, 2009. His opponent was Professor Joseph A. Buckwalter, M.S., M.D. from University of Iowa, IA.
  
  
• PhD Student Siru Turunen was awarded a research grant by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation. May, 2009
  
  
• PhD Students Siru Turunen and Katariina Kulmala were awarded research grants by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, North Savo Regional fund. April, 2009
  
  
• PhD Student Antti Aula was awarded a research grant by Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion, April 23, 2009
  
  
• PhD Student Janne Karjalainen was awarded a research grant by Finnish Cultural Foundation, February 27, 2009
  
  
• Ossi Riekkinen defended his thesis "Development and Application of Ultrasound Backscatter Methods for the Diagnostics of Trabecular Bone" successfully on November 14, 2008. His opponent was Professor Timo Jämsä, Ph.D., from University of Oulu.
  
  
• Janne Karjalainen received the best Master's thesis of 2007 award during Oulu Wellness Forum, October 7, 2008
  
  
• PhD Student Erna Kaleva was awarded a grant by the Foundation for Advanced Technology of Eastern Finland. October 30, 2008
  
  
• Jatta Berberat née Kurkijärvi defended her thesis "Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Native and Repaired Articular Cartilage - An Experimental and Clinical Approach" successfully on September 23, 2008. Her opponent was Professor Yong-Jo Kim, M.D., Ph.D., from Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  
  
• Petro Julkunen defended his thesis "Relationships between Structure, Composition and Function of Articular Cartilage - Studies based on Fibril Reinforced Poroviscoelastic Modeling" successfully on August 8, 2008. His opponent was Professor Robert L. Sah, M.D., Sc.D., from University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
  
  
• Mikko Nissi defended his thesis "Magnetic resonance parameters in quantitative evaluation of articular cartilage: studies on T1 and T2 relaxation time" successfully on June 6, 2008. His opponent was Professor Yang Xia, Ph.D., from Oakland University, Rochester, MI.
  
  
• Eveliina Lammentausta, PhD, and PhD Students Antti Aula and Jatta Kurkijärvi were awarded research grants by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, North Savo Regional fund. April 30, 2008
  
  
• PhD Students Antti Aula (born Kallioniemi) and Ossi Riekkinen were awarded research grants by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation. April 27, 2008
  
  
• Shared Best Master's thesis of 2007 award to Janne Karjalainen, MSc, (Eng) and Mikko Nissi, MSc, during the annual meeting of Finnish Society for Medical Physics & Engineering
  February 7, 2008
  
  
• Simo Saarakkala, PhD, received a Kuopio City Award for Young Scientist of University of Kuopio. January 2008
  
  
• PhD Students Erna Kaleva and Panu Kiviranta were awarded research grants by the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. October 10, 2007
  
  
• Eveliina Lammentausta defended her thesis "Structural and mechanical characterization of articular cartilage and trabecular bone with quantitative NMR" successfully on September 28, 2007. Her opponent was Professor Sharmila Majumdar, Ph.D., from University of California, San Francisco.
  
  
• Heikki Nieminen defended his thesis "Acoustic properties of articular cartilage: effect of composition, structure and mechanical loading" successfully on May 11, 2007. His opponent was Associate Professor Yongping Zheng, Ph.D., from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  
  
• PhD Students Erna Kaleva, Petro Julkunen and Heikki Nieminen were awarded research grants by the North Savo Fund of the Finnish Cultural Foundation. May 4, 2007
  
  
• Bone Index - team was awarded for their business plan in the second phase of the Venture Cup business idea contest. March 15, 2007
   
• PhD Students Mikko Nissi and Panu Kiviranta were awarded research grants by Instrumentarium Science Foundation. March 8, 2007
  
  
• Miika Nieminen, PhD, was appointed Chief Physicist at the Department of Radiology at Oulu University Hospital and Docent of medical imaging physics at University of Oulu. March 1, 2007
  
  
• Best Master's thesis of 2006 award to Heikki Nieminen during the annual meeting of Finnish Society for Medical Physics & Engineering
  February 7, 2007
  
  
• Simo Saarakkala defended his thesis "Pre-Clinical Ultrasound Diagnostics of Articular Cartilage and Subchondral Bone." successfully on February 2, 2007. His opponent was Timo Jämsä, Ph.D. from University of Oulu.
  
  
• PhD Student Heikki Nieminen was awarded a grant for PhD studies by Foundation of Aleksanteri Mikkonen. January 2007
  
  
• Web pages have been opened for the TEKES/ Finnwell Osteoporotic Fracture Risk (OFR)- study. BBC-group is an active partner in this project with the aim to develop new sensitive methods for risk assessment of osteoporotic fractures. January 2007.
   
• PhD Student Post in The International Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics for the period of 1.1.2007 - 31.12.2009 was appointed to Ossi Riekkinen.
  
  
• PhD Student Heikki Nieminen was awarded a 6-month research grant by Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. December 2006
   
• BBC Bone Index- team participated the Venture Cup business idea contest and was awarded as one of the most promising ideas.  The team also received an award from the Pohjois-savo Liikkeelle! - contest for the best business idea. The members of Bone Index-team are Ossi Riekkinen, Janne Karjalainen, Juha Töyräs and Jukka Jurvelin. December 2006.
   
• BBC-group will give one oral, one poster/oral and nine poster presentations in the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society February 11-14, 2007 Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA
   
• Mikko Hakulinen defended his thesis "Prediction of density, structure and mechanical properties of trabecular bone using ultrasound and X-ray techniques" successfully on June 16, 2006. His opponent was Patrick Nicholson Ph.D. from Jyväskylä. Mikko's dissertation made it to the national news!
  
  
• Best Master's graduate award to Ossi Riekkinen during the annual meeting of Finnish Society for Medical Physics & Engineering
  February 9, 2006
  
  
• BBC-group will give one lecture, one oral and one poster presentation in 14th Scientific Meeting of ISMRM in Seattle, Washington, USA, 6-12 May 2006.
  
  
• BBC-group will give two oral, one poster/oral and nine poster presentations in the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society March 19-22, 2006 The Lakeside Center, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois, USA
  
  
• BBC-group will give one lecture, one oral and six poster presentations in the 5th Baltic Bone and Cartilage Conference in Naantali, Finland, 1-3 Sep 2005
  
  
• Juha Töyräs was nominated as the primus doctor of the 6th Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees by the University of Kuopio.
  June 10, 2005
  
  
• Mikko Hakulinen was awarded a stipend for his MSc thesis during the annual meeting of Finnish Society of Medical Physics & Engineering
  February 11, 2005
  
  
• BBC-group will give 3 oral presentations in the 13th Scientific Meeting of ISMRM in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, 7-13 May 2005.
  January 29, 2005