Ruusuvuori lab
Our collaborator Sonja Koivukoski from the University of Eastern Finland defended her PhD thesis, “Applicability of virtual staining in histological whole slide images”. Prof. Johanna Arola acted as opponent, with Leena Latonen as custos and Pekka as second supervisor. Congratulations, Sonja!
Umair Khan defended his PhD thesis, “AI-driven image-to-image translation for histopathology”, at the University of Turku. Nataša Sladoje from Uppsala University acted as opponent, with Pekka as custos and supervisor and Leena Latonen as co-supervisor. It’s the first virtual-staining-focused PhD completed in Finland, congratulations Umair!
Nisar joined the Bioimage Informatics Group on 5 March 2026 as a Senior Researcher and Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow under the SYS-Life programme. He works on predictive modeling of cardiovascular diseases, combining spatial omics with computational histopathology. Welcome, Nisar!