Heikki Nieminen
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
T314 Dept. Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Key interest: research and innovation in medical physics and biomedical engineering.
Research interests: biomedical high-intensity ultrasound applications, e.g. ultrasonic drug delivery & therapy, acoustic trapping, cancer diagnostics.
Innovation interests: new diagnostic and interventional platforms, translation of research findings into clinic via commercialization, Biodesign innovation process
Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Email
[email protected]
Phone number
+358505019280
Honors and awards
Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, € 497,000.00
Developing an ultrasonic method to overcome shortcomings of ex vivo gene therapies.
Granted funding (public project funding)
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
May 2022
Winner of pitching competition at Y Science at Slush 2021 side event
Awarded to Auroptic Medical Oy (company established after academic project Lightopsy): Pitching event Y Science at Slush side event, category: Health and Pharma; role: team leader of Aalto Part of the Lightopsy project; co-founder of Auroptic Medical Oy.<br/><br/>https://www.aalto.fi/fi/uutiset/auroptic-medicalille-slush-voitto
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Jan 2021
Publications
Ultrasonic Healing of Plastrons
Alex Drago-González, Maxime Fauconnier, Bhuvaneshwari Karunakaran, William S.Y. Wong, Robin H.A. Ras, Heikki J. Nieminen
2024
Advanced Science
Ultrasound-Enhanced Fine-Needle Biopsy Improves Yield in Human Epithelial and Lymphoid Tissue
Yohann Le Bourlout, Minna Rehell, Jetta Kelppe, Jaana Rautava, Emanuele Perra, Jouni Rantanen, Gösta Ehnholm, Nick Hayward, Kristofer Nyman, Kenneth P.H. Pritzker, Jussi Tarkkanen, Timo Atula, Katri Aro, Heikki J. Nieminen
2024
ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Development of Focused Ultrasound-Assisted Nanoplexes for RNA Delivery
Sanjeev Ranjan, Stef Bosch, Hannamari Lukkari, Johanna Schirmer, Niina Aaltonen, Heikki J. Nieminen, Vesa Pekka Lehto, Arto Urtti, Tatu Lajunen, Kirsi Rilla
2024
Nanomaterials
Evaluation of bone growth around bioactive glass S53P4 by scanning acoustic microscopy co-registered with optical interferometry and elemental analysis
Axi Holmström, Antti Meriläinen, Jere Hyvönen, Anton Nolvi, Tuomo Ylitalo, Kari Steffen, Robert Björkenheim, Gustav Strömberg, Heikki J. Nieminen, Ivan Kassamakov, Jukka Pajarinen, Leena Hupa, Ari Salmi, Edward Hæggström, Nina C. Lindfors
2023
Scientific Reports
Multi-modal transducer-waveguide construct coupled to a medical needle
Yohann Le Bourlout, Gösta Ehnholm, Heikki Nieminen
2023
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
A method to detect thermal damage in bovine liver utilising diffuse reflectance spectroscopy
Lukasz Surazynski, Heikki J. Nieminen, Markus J. Mäkinen, Miika T. Nieminen, Teemu Myllylä
2023
Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging
Needle bevel geometry influences the flexural deflection magnitude in ultrasound-enhanced fine-needle biopsy
Saif Bunni, Heikki J. Nieminen
2022
Scientific Reports
An ultrasonically actuated fine-needle creates cavitation in bovine liver
Emanuele Perra, Nick Hayward, Kenneth P.H. Pritzker, Heikki J. Nieminen
2022
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
An ultrasonically actuated needle promotes the transport of nanoparticles and fluids
Emanuele Perra, Nick Hayward, Kenneth P.H. Pritzker, Heikki J. Nieminen
2022
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Ultrasound-Enhanced Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy Provides Improved Yield in Human Tissue
Yohann Le Bourlout, Minna Rehell, Emanuele Perra, Jouni Rantanen, Nicholas Hayward, Gösta Ehnholm, Jaana Rautava, Jussi Tarkkanen, Timo Atula, Aro K., Heikki Nieminen
2021