Janne Koivisto

Janne Koivisto

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Visiting address: Alfred Nobels allé 8, plan 8, 14152 Huddinge
Postal address: H5 Laboratoriemedicin, H5 Patologi Näreoja, 141 52 Huddinge
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About me

  • Post doc researcher in Bone Biology group of Tuomas Näreoja. Hydrogel expert
    aiming to develop 3D bone disease model with co-culture of different bone
    cell types inside a hydrogel scaffold.
    I studied materials science and engineering at Tampere University of
    Technology (Finland), majoring in biomaterials and tissue engineering. Did my
    masters thesis about differentiation of peripheral sensory neurons from human
    iPS cells in the Heart group of prof. Katriina Aalto-Setälä, University of
    Tampere and graduated 2013. After graduation worked first as research
    assistant and then as doctoral student in prof. Minna Kellomäki's
    Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering group in the Hydrogel project, while also
    maintaining a position in the Heart Group. Graduated as Doctor of Science
    (Tech.) in December 2019 with the thesis topic "Development and
    characterization of gellan gum based hydrogels for soft tissue engineering
    applications".
    I did my first post doc, 1.5 years, in the Microelectronics Research Unit in
    University of Oulu (Finland) under the supervision of docent Gabriela Lorite.
    There I studied the interactions of carbon nanotubes with hydrogel
    biomaterials and gained deeper understanding of hydrogel rheology.
    Currently (since October 2020) I'm on my second post doc in Assist. Prof.
    Tuomas Näreoja's Bone Biology group, Division of Pathology, Department of
    Laboratory Medicine. My aim is to develop 3D bone disease model and provide
    the necessary hydrogel characterization related to our model system.
    In autumn 2021 I was on a research visit to Karlsruhe Institute of
    Technology, Germany, to learn more about rheology and microrheology in the
    Applied Mechanics research group of Prof. Dr. Norbert Willenbacher.
    Award for doctoral thesis approved with distinction given by the the
    Industrial Research Fund at Tampere University of Technology.
    B.Sc.(Tech.) 2010, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
    M.Sc.(Tech.) 2013, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
    D.Sc.(Tech.) 2019, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

Research

  • - Hydrogels and their characterization
    - 3D co-culture of bone cell types
    - Differentiation of bone

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